Quotation Quotes

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Isaac D'Israeli

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Thomas Love Peacock

Carolyn Heilbrun

George Orwell

A. A. Milne

Margaret Thatcher

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

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

Anna Garlin Spencer

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

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

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

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.

Brendan Francis

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

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

Carolyn Heilbrun

In the dime stores and bus stations,
People talk of situations,
Read books, repeat quotations,
Draw conclusions on the wall.

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

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.

Of shakespeare

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

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

I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, "Verify your quotations."

Winston Churchill

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

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats — and one always secretes too much jelly.

You evidently do not suffer from quotation-hunger as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as I always want to know where a quotation comes from.

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

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

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.

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

One of my favourite quotations is: 'That which thy father bequeathed thee, earn it anew, if thou wouldst possess it.'

Margaret Thatcher

I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote "I am that I am," for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside.

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