Quotes About 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.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

I quoted both Miranda Fleet AND Gandhi.

You get so worked up and flowery! You sound as if you were quoting something all the time!

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

The more fluent the experience of reading a quote - or the easier it is to grasp, the smoother it sounds, the more readily it comes to mind--the less likely we are to question the actual quotation.

This was a report from a single source. It was an established and reliable line of reporting. It was quoted from a senior Iraqi military officer in a position to know this information.

Bacon flinched, then with hollow flippancy quoted the Book of Judges: "With the jawbone of an ass you have slain your thousands.

He kept saying weird things to me in Elizabeth English." "Like what?" Christina asked. "Like 'Me thinks I never forget a face,'" Mimi said. "Me thinks that makes no sense," said Grant.

The difference between my quotations and those of the next man is that I leave out the inverted commas.

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.

I think you're being very nasty about her, and, anyway, you're in no position to talk about beauty; it's only skin deep after all, and before you go throwing stones you should look for the beam in your eye,' said Margo triumphantly. Larry looked puzzled. 'Is that a proverb, or a quotation from the Builders' Gazette?' he inquired.

I love you, Lassiter," she said without looking away from her daughter. "I know." Mary glanced back at him. "Did you just quote Harrison Ford to me." "Yes, Leia. And it's also true. Go on, Mother, she's safe.

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.

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.

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote I am that I am, for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside.

Miss Amesbury is especially happy in the use of quotations—and an apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

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

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.