Quotation Quotes

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Isaac D'Israeli

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Thomas Love Peacock

Carolyn Heilbrun

Brendan Behan

Lewis Carroll

Winston Churchill

My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is, me judice [in my opinion], no book - it is a plaything.

Thomas Love Peacock

That's the point of quotations, you know: one can use another's words to be insulting.

Carolyn Heilbrun

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain

Anna Garlin Spencer

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Isaac D'Israeli

A quotation in a speech, article, or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well-read man.

The book was amazing, and full of quotations that one could hurl like a javelin.

Rudyard Kipling

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

The scientific spirit is not an affair of quotation, of externally acquired information, anymore than manners are an affair of the etiquette-book.

Bertrand Russell

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

He that tries to recommend him by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen.

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But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

Winston Churchill

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

Now shall we say that only the first men were well alive, and the existing generation is invalided and degenerate? … A more subtle and severe criticism might suggest that some dislocation has befallen the race; that men are off their centre; that multitudes of men do not live with Nature, but behold it as exiles. People go out to look at sunrises and sunsets who do not recognize their own quietly and happily, but know that it is foreign to them. As they do by books, so they quote the sunset and the star, and do not make them theirs. Worse yet, they live as foreigners in the world of truth, and quote thoughts, and thus disown them. Quotation confesses inferiority.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reviewing a book:

Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.

Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of the book proper. From quotations which I had seen, I had a high notion of Aristotle's merits, but I had not the most remote notion what a wonderful man he was. Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.

When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word; I therefore extracted from philosophers principles of science; from historians remarkable facts; from chymists complete processes; from divines striking exhortations; and from poets beautiful descriptions.