Quotations Quotes
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Bierce, Ambrose
Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.
Chapman, Robert
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
Churchill, Winston
It is a good thing for an uneducatedman to read books of quotations.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
Grant, Cary
I improve on misquotation.
Guiney, Louise
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.
Kipling, Rudyard
He wrapped himself in quotations as a beggar would enfold himself in the purpleof Emperors.
Malraux, Andre
Be careful with quotations, you can damn anything.
Maugham, W. Sommerset
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Mencken, H.L.
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well quotations.
Roux, John
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a witty person, but a pebble in the hands of a fool.
Stoppard, Tom
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
Strunsky, Simeon
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Voltaire
A witty saying proves nothing.
Whipple, E.P.
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
Wilde, Oscar
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Wimsey, Lord Peter
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
Xueqin, Cao
"I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose," said Tan. "If I told you how it went on, I should end up by contradicting myself!"