Quotes About Quotation

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Literality in satire is the condemnation by quotation.

[S]ometimes... quotation marks are an absolute crime against humanity.

The rules of punctuation seem arbitrary. How can they not, when an apostrophe looks like nothing in this world so much as a comma that can't keep its feet on the ground? Or when, by simply placing next to that wafting comma its twin, one creates (of all things) a quotation mark?

I think Adrian really likes you. Like, in a wanting-to-be-serious way." I shook my head and stepped back. "Nope. He likes me in a wanting-to-get-the-clothes-off-the-cute-dhampir way.

Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him!

Their reliance on biblical quotations does not augur well for their for their openness to moral reasoning....

I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art.

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

Why does no one vet the quotations posted on Goodreads?

Why study authenticity if not to seek it? Try to ring some last truth from that word before it's so leeched of meaning that becomes a word casing, a shell without a bullet. A term that can be used only inside quotation marks.

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

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

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

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

I don't like tea! Never have, never drunk it.

And as their love had begun a little before a quotation, so it ended a little after one.

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

A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.

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

When at the consecration the priest moves into the mode of first-person quotation, he is not speaking in his own person but in the person of Jesus—and that's why those words change the elements.

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. 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.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.