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Quotation confesses inferiority. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotation lovers love rare words. -- Willis Regier
Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah! -- James Joyce
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- Oscar Wilde
Quotation is a noun. Quote is a verb. -- Eusebius Clay
There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation. -- James Boswell
Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author. -- Samuel Johnson
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. -- Ambrose Bierce
Quotation brings to many people one of the intensest joys of living. -- Bernard Darwin
Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe. -- James Boswell
Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it. -- Samuel Johnson
Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors... -- Thomas Browne
Quotation is a method of appropriation which is invincible, I think. It's not a procedure which displeases me, contrary to recycling. -- Susan Sontag
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I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation correctly, an earlier source will be pointed out to you. -- Nigel Rees
Of all the many and (thanks to a free press) the ever-multiplying blessings attendant upon the "glorious constitution" of literature, not the least precious and profitable to a modern cultivator of systems and syllables, in pamphlets, magazines, and folios, is the right of Quotation. -- Samuel Laman Blanchard
On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the $50 price), 'Quotationeer Shapiro.' . . . Shapiro does original research, earning his 1,067-page volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett's and Oxford's. -- William Safire
Life itself is a quotation. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. -- Samuel Johnson
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation. -- Charles Edward Montague
I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact. -- Andrew Marr
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. -- James A. Baldwin
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. -- Oscar Wilde
It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain! -- Anna Garlin Spencer
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation. -- Janet Malcolm
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. -- Brendan Behan
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner. -- Rachael Ray
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
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
I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love. -- Peter James
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
I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page. -- E. L. Doctorow
The Bible... provides no guide to reading the Bible. In fact, it is full of such inconsistencies, contradictions, lacunae, obscurities, baffling tales, and poetic imagery that to quote it at all is to select from conflicting alternative passages. Every quotation is therefore necessarily an interpretation. -- James P. Carse
My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation. -- Nigel Rees
Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do the Constitution: as a Chinese menu designed to allow picking and choosing. That's because when many Democrats take the Bible as a whole, they realize how much they despise it. -- Ben Shapiro
Avoid overuse of 'quotation "marks."' -- William Safire
Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation -- Willard Van Orman Quine
Human success is a quotation from overhead. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
In the museums, everything is in quotation marks. -- Mason Cooley
The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning. -- Maria Edgeworth
I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses -- Bill Walsh
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase. -- Mason Cooley
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language. -- Samuel Johnson
A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice. -- Emile M. Cioran
Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks. -- Paul Eldridge
I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art. -- David Lodge
Every great quotation carries the power to shape the world like a river. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving... -- William Francis Henry King
Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation. -- Emile M. Cioran
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham
A good quotation is a very strong wind; it can change a man's direction! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor. -- H. L. Mencken
We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks. -- Joseph Stalin
Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them. -- Gary Saul Morson
There is no way you can use the word "reality" without quotation marks around it. -- Joseph Campbell
The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge. -- John Jay Chapman
It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation. -- Robert Benchley
Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door. -- Richard Hamming
A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole. -- Ayn Rand
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive. -- Mark Twain
The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway. -- Richard P. Feynman
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: "It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat. -- Bernard Malamud
It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain -- Anna Garlin Spencer
Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs -- Jerome Stern
When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page. -- George Steiner
You know what my favourite quotation is?...It's from Chaucer... Criseyde says it, "I am myne owene woman, wel at ese. -- Mary McCarthy
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business. -- A. A. Milne
To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest tragedy for a good quotation is to be anonymous; and for the bad one, is to be known and famous! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it. -- Eric Partridge
I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning. -- Masha Tupitsyn
Public circulation is what renders something a quotation. It's quotable because it's been quoted, and its having been quoted gives it authority. -- Louis Menand
The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall. -- Susan Sontag
Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you. -- Edward Abbey
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
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment. -- Susan Sontag
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The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can always find an evolutionary quotation for anything. But the question is whether it's functional, which is not the same as being evolutionary. -- Daniel Kahneman
He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed. -- Philip Pullman
The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them. -- Gary Saul Morson
Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and their fascinating history. -- Marjorie Garber
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I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another. -- Catherine Brady
To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason. -- Robertson Davies
In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink. -- George Orwell
And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose. -- Tahereh Mafi
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I have a big collection of quotation programs...In particular, I like MCR Software's Wisdom of the Ages, which has the best selection of relevant quotes I know. -- Jerry Pournelle
A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged. -- Robertson Davies
I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a word like "goeth"? -- Gary Saul Morson
There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says 'Poeta nascitur non fit' the translation of which is- the poet is born, not made. -- Joseph Devlin
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing]. -- Henri Poincare
When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather -- Willa Cather
I don't want to use quotation marks anymore, I've gone back and forth with them. In Ghosts, I didn't use them, for instance, all the way back in the early eighties. -- Paul Auster
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers wrong but captures a real fact about human psychology. (p. 220) -- Steven Pinker
Great quotation collections glean the millennia, distill essences, and battle for bragging rights about who's bigger, who's smarter, who's best. Who-knows-who-said-what has a market, a history, and a hall of fame. -- Willis Regier
I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation. -- Joseph Addison
You evidently do not suffer from "quotation-hunger" as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as I always want to know where a quotation comes from. -- Lewis Carroll
I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again. -- Bill Gates
you saywe were nevermeant for this vowed life,golden bands of only us, and deathdo us part. you say love like it's held in quotation marks,that this union soured before it started. -- Beth Morey
But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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