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Quotes about Quotation


I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.

W. I. E. Gates

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

Louise Imogen Guiney

Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.

Ihab Hassan

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

Hesketh Pearson

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Joseph Roux

A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.

The Talmud

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

Lord Peter Wimsey

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Benjamin Disraeli

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. •George Bernard Shaw It is better to be quotable than to be honest. •Tom Stoppard Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. •Orson Welles Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

George Bernard Shaw

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Orson Welles

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde

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