Quotation Quotes

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There were moments when his memory failed him; and he would forget to eat dinner, though he never forgot a quotation.

Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors...

I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.

Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, quotation, excerptation, accumulation, and repetition of already existing images. Notions of originality, authenticity, and presence... are undermined.

The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.

It is generally supposed that where there is no Quotation, there will be found most originality.

Isaac D'Israeli

It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation.

Robert Benchley

Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles.

Isaac D'Israeli

The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c'est l homme, what is likely to happen if l homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual?

Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.

It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a simile, or a quotation of an Author, passes for a mighty argument.... This weakness and effeminacy of mankind in being persuaded where they are delighted, have made them the sport of orators, poets, and men of wit.

But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.