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Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction. -- Walter Benjamin
Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted. -- Jonathan Swift
Quotations cause all kinds of trouble. -- Willis Regier
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them. -- Dorothy Richardson
Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. -- Winston Churchill
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs. -- Guy Debord
Quotations--always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out. -- Jean Rostand
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything. -- Thomas Love Peacock
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. -- Winston Churchill
General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives. -- Suetonius
The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. -- Susan Sontag
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw. -- Nigel Rees
Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear. -- Ihab Hassan
Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal. -- Peg Bracken
Success will not come when you read success Quotations .It won't leave once you inspired and apply it. -- Pradeep
There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable. -- Justin Kaplan
Quotations are the gold mine of human mind, the silver pearls of the wisdom ocean, and the cool drops of the rain of intelligence. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or stolen authority. -- Justin Kaplan
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
A wide range of quotations are necessary for the repertoire of a well-rounded speaker. Quotations are able to illustrate in a few words what is difficult to explain in many. -- Carolyn Warner
Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external. -- Louise Imogen Guiney
Quotations are powerful tools. Michel de Montaigne, the father of all essayists, observed, 'I quote others only to better express myself.' Intrepid quotations detective Ralph Keyes helps us to discover the clear truth about exactly what was said and who exactly said it. -- Richard Lederer
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
Always verify quotations! -- Martin Routh
Life itself is a quotation. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- Oscar Wilde
An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances. -- Gary Saul Morson
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham
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
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. -- Samuel Johnson
Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe. -- James Boswell
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. -- Alfred North Whitehead
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. -- James A. Baldwin
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 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
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. -- Winston Churchill
I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life. -- Loretta Young
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. -- Hesketh Pearson
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. -- Orson Welles
The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting. -- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. -- George Eliot
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. -- Rudyard Kipling
It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations. -- Maurice Chevalier
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. -- Max Beerbohm
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. -- Karl Kraus
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall. -- Bob Dylan
One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly. -- Virginia Woolf
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 pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. -- Robert Burns
They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. -- Aaron Koblin
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
Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks. -- Lawrence Halprin
Some of the tactics that are used by Foxconn and other companies throughout China is, if you are late, if you violate one of the small rules, some of the punishment is that you have to copy down quotations from the chairman of Foxconn: you have to write out confessions explaining why you were late and promising never to do it again. -- Charles Duhigg
We are ruled by quotations. -- Susan Sontag
My skull is crammed with quotations. -- Susan Sontag
I surround myself with inspirational quotations. -- Blake Mycoskie
People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations. -- Bob Dylan
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything. -- Andre Malraux
A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes. -- Mason Cooley
You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations. -- Robert Bunsen
Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context. -- John Wyndham
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- Susan Sontag
...the curious hunter-up of rare quotations... the young and struggling scribbler... -- William Francis Henry King
To read quotations is to live in a planet with multiple suns! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
the majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore. -- Ethel Smyth
It isn't much of a book of quotations if I am not in it. -- Ernie J Zelinski
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture. -- Roland Barthes
It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book. -- Vicesimus Knox
Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them. -- Gary Saul Morson
Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. -- Aaron Koblin
Quotology disdains no quotations whatsoever, a duty it bears stoutly, with bloodshot eyes and sagging shelves. -- Willis Regier
Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure. -- P. D. James
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting. -- John Green
In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations. -- Charles Edward Montague
I've compiled a book from the Internet. It's a book of quotations attributed to the wrong people. -- Jerry Seinfeld
We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves. -- Gary Saul Morson
Oh, I don't read. I skulk about in search of quotations that might make me appear educated. -- Tasha Alexander
If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored. -- Benjamin Graham
Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations. -- Margaret Drabble
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. -- Oscar Wilde
I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book of Mormon. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief. -- Holly Black
I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique. -- Anais Nin
Below are some quotations along these lines. Select a quote for your Gothic Myspace layout or contribute one of your own. -- Laura Ramirez
One of my favourite quotations is: 'That which thy father bequeathed thee, earn it anew, if thou wouldst possess it.' -- Margaret Thatcher
I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things. -- Dorothy Parker
Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything. -- Nicolas Chamfort
You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations. [Expressing his lack of confidence in reported regularities in the periodic classification of elements.] -- Robert Bunsen
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
Using quotations was at first quite spontaneous for me, but then this use became strengthened through reflection. But originally this practice came out of temperament. -- Susan Sontag
I realized that my kisses with Dane had become a form of punctuation, the quotations or the hasty dash at the end of a conversation -- Lisa Kleypas
Looking for a cricket quote for inspiration? Or, maybe a cricket quote to make you laugh? Check out this collection of the best cricket quotations. -- John Arlott
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. -- Winston Churchill
Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining resource. -- Stephanie S. Tolan
It is a rich storehouse for those who love quotations. It is as full of fine bon mots as a Christmas pudding is full of plums. -- Fitz-Greene Halleck
I have never found a better way to enhance the communications process than by reinforcing the points or concepts I wish to make with timely, memorable quotations. -- Carolyn Warner
Here are more quotes about chemistry and famous quotations made by chemists relating to their science. There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists. -- Michael Parkinson
No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter. -- Alice Corbin Henderson
A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
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Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts of extracts become quotations. -- Gary Saul Morson
With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to examine quotations, by whomsoever alleged. -- Pierre Bayle
Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books... -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible." "Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare. -- Ellen Raskin
Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words. -- Oprah Winfrey
There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the love with which they regarded Nature. -- Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

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