“ I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. ”
- Clifton Fadiman- Copy
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“ In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera. ”
- Arthur Miller- Copy
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“ Quotation … A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read… ”
- Henry W. Fowler- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting. ”
- Amanda Cross- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation. ”
- Janet Malcolm- Copy
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“ Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear. ”
- Ihab Hassan- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs. ”
- Guy Debord- Copy
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“ Quotations 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- Copy
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“ One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats — and one always secretes too much jelly. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. ”
- Orson Welles- Copy
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“ In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse. ”
- Evelyn Waugh- Copy
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“ In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall. ”
- Bob Dylan- Copy
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“ In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 1.3K
“ I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. ”
- Robert Burns- Copy
- 2.6K
“ He wrapped himself in quotations — as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
- 1.7K
“ When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
- 3.8K
“ When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
- 187
“ 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- Copy
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“ If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names. ”
- Elaine Gill- Copy
- 2.8K
“ An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence. ”
- Letitia Landon- Copy
- 562
“ Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man. ”
- Barbara Pym- Copy
- 196
“ A fine quotations is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. ”
- Joseph Roux- Copy
- 414
“ I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses. ”
- Bill Walsh- Copy
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