Motivational Quotes

Quotations

What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?

- Doctor Who

Best Quotes about Quotations

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together speeches are paying attention only to the soundbite, not to the text as a whole, not realizing that all great soundbites happen by accident, which is to say, all great soundbites are yielded up inevitably, as part of the natural expression of the text. They are part of the tapestry, they aren't a little flower somebody sewed on.

Noonan, Peggy

I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.

Gates, W. I. E.

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

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

The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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 fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Roux, Joseph

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Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.

Hassan, Ihab

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I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

Fadiman, Clifton

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He wrapped himself in quotations -- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our white mythology. Other authors we constantly invoke, chanting their names in cerebral rituals of propitiation or ancestor worship.

Hassan, Ihab

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A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.

Robert M. Hamilton

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I quote others in order to better express myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Rudyard Kipling

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Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

Edward Young

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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

H. L. Mencken

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That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

Cross, Amanda

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

Brendan Francis

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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.

Pearson, Hesketh

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Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

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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.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Our best thoughts come from others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

George Bernard Shaw

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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Alfred North Whitehead

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What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?

Doctor Who

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A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything.

Peacock, Thomas Love

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Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.

Davies, Robertson

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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

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When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Orson Welles

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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

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In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

Selden, John

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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

Baldwin, James

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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Malcolm, Janet

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

Samuel Johnson

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Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Hesketh Pearson

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A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

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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

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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

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

Oscar Wilde

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Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Benjamin, Walter

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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

Andre Malraux

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Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.

Alinsky, Saul

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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.

Woolf, Virginia

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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Anatole France