A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Joseph Roux
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Brendan Francis
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
Letitia Landon
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
Janet Malcolm
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
Dorothy L. Sayers
I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.
Bill Walsh
In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.
Evelyn Waugh
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
It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!
Anna Garlin Spencer
Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Bierce
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Isaac D'Israeli
To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.
Charles Edward Montague
We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.
Michael Steele
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
James A. Baldwin
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