Quotes About Quotation

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

All I know is that I am not a Marxist

I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

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

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving...

Indeed a good quotation hardly ever comes amiss. It is a pleasing break in the thread of a speech or writing, allowing the speaker or writer to retire for an instant while another and greater makes himself heard. And this calling-up of the deathless dead implies also a community of mind with them, which the reader will not grudge the author lest he should seem to deny it to himself.

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

Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.

[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was "a city upon a hill," which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There are incidents like that all through history. We have been here.

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

Life itself is a quotation.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

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

I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.

Remember that incident in Egypt with the #No. 2 pencil?" "Don't be ridiculous," I snapped. "That was a Pentel, not a #No. 2.

Light from above is virtuously Northern; it is also, as the last quotation suggests, celestial. Heaven had been seen as a place of light since around the twelfth century (McDannell and Lang 1988: 80ff.) Film

use roman type and quotation marks.

The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.

Quotations cause all kinds of trouble.

Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into books of a thousand pages. Through the centuries quotation collectors have saved quotations that would otherwise be lost.

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.

Misquotation is quotology's swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It's a mess we must wade into.

The sweet habit of each other had begun to put lines around her mouth, lines that looked like quotation marks – as if everything she said had been said before.