Quotations Quotes Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.     Ambrose Bierce One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.     Amos Bronson Alcott It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.     Aristotle I didn't really say everything I said.     Yogi Berra The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.     Amanda Cross The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.     Benjamin Disraeli When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.     Anatole France A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.     Brendan Francis Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.     Andre Malraux Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.     Anonymous There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.     Pierre Bayle The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.     Robert Benchley Life itself is a quotation.     Jorge Luis Borges A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.     Robert Chapman 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.'     Sir Winston Churchill 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.     Sir Winston Churchill What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.     Samuel Taylor Coleridge People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.     David H. Comins I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.     Marlene Dietrich 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 Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.     Ralph Waldo Emerson The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.     William Feather I improve on misquotation.     Cary Grant Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?     Philip G. Hamerton A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.     Robert M. Hamilton A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.     Oliver Wendell Holmes Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.     Samuel Johnson Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.     Samuel Johnson He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.     Rudyard Kipling She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.     W. Somerset Maugham To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.     C. E. Montague I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffable idea I seek to express.     Caldwell O'Keefe After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.     H. L. Mencken I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.     Dorothy Parker Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.     Hesketh Pearson Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.     Hesketh Pearson A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.     Joseph Roux The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.     Dan Quayle What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?     Doctor Who A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.     Dorothy L. Sayers I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.     Seneca I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.     George Bernard Shaw Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.     Simeon Strunsky A short saying oft contains much wisdom.     Sophocles It is better to be quotable than to be honest.     Tom Stoppard What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.     Mark Twain A witty saying proves nothing.     Voltaire Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.     Orson Welles An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.     Edwin P. Whipple Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.     Oscar Wilde Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.     Alfred North Whitehead I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.     Alfred North Whitehead Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.     Edward Young Previous Subject - Questioning | Next Subject - Reality