Motivational Quotes

Quotations

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

- Rudyard Kipling

Best Quotes about Quotations

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

Fadiman, Clifton

In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.

Waugh, Evelyn

I quote others in order to better express myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Baldwin, James

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

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

Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

I didn't really say everything I said.

Yogi Berra

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Andre Malraux

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The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Orson Welles

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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

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

Anatole France

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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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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

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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

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

Samuel Johnson

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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Samuel Johnson

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He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

Robert Benchley

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

Cross, Amanda

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Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

Dan Quayle

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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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A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.

Talmud, The

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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?

Smyth, Dame Ethel

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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

Seneca

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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

Burns, Robert

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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

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Our best thoughts come from others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Debord, Guy

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I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose, said Tan-Chun. If I told you how it went on, I should end up by contradicting myself!

Cao Xueqin

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

Gates, W. I. E.

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To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.

C. E. Montague

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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. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.

Fowler, Henry W.

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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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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