Quotes About Quotation

Classical quotation is a parole of literary men all over the world.

No, Sir, it is a good thing; there is a community of mind in it. Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Having lost his worldly goods, the refugee had become a fabulous collector, lugging around the portable property of memory and quotation.

A clergyman generally dislikes to be met in argument by any scriptural quotation; he feels as affronted as a doctor does, when recommended by an old woman to take some favourite dose

The trouble with Goodreads is that they never authenticate these quotations of famous people.

Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

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.

If he had a little more brains he would be a half-wit.

The only words worth repeating are from the Old Testament or Oscar Wilde.

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.

I have never concealed the fact that I regarded him as my master; indeed I fancy I have never written a book in which I did not quote from him.

Beware of Goodreads quotations that come without a citation; they are often false.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

Say," said Ham Sandwich

Citar es respirar literatura para no ahogarse entre los tópicos castizos y ocurrentes que le vienen a uno a la pluma cuando se empeña en esa vulgaridad suprema de «no deberle nada a nadie». Y es que, en el fondo, quien no cita no hace más que repetir pero sin saberlo ni elegirlo.

A quotation is what a speaker wants to say--unlike a soundbite which is all that an interviewer allows you to say.

I said it. I like to quote myself. I am not modest.

Life itself is a quotation.

A writer can get into a vast deal of trouble through misquotation. If you ever want to receive lots of mail, I recommend you get a Shakespeare quote wrong in a magazine or newspaper."

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.