Quotes About Quotations

The influence of William Shakespeare on the English language and literature can hardly be exaggerated. His life spanned A.D. 1564 to 1616 and he made a name for himself as a poet and playwright. Creating such memorable works as Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet, he has become the most-quoted author of the English-speaking world. Because of this, many of the words and phrases he used or coined are still in use today. His plays are still studied and performed.

Yet in the city I was discovering, the collage of fantasy, pigment, quotation, and architecture that I walked through daily in my outfits and my obsessions, I came to notice small-scale transpositions, tiny openings within the texture of the present, where choices towards a freed thinking could be possible.

No author was immune from having his own ideas and words quoted back to him favorably. Authors were, at heart, no matter how much they blustered or how suavely they carried themselves, insecure creatures with sensitive egos, as delicate in the constitution as movie stars, only much poorer and less glamorous.

The worst thing about proverbs and quotations is that the fools make no use of them.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats—and one always secretes too much jelly.

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.

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.]

Lewis had developed a trademark style, slow enough for note taking, loud enough to rouse the dullest listener, straightforward, abundantly furnished with quotations, and lavish in wit.

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

word in its several, especially of the chiefest, acceptations. First, then by this word fear we are to understand even God himself, who is the object of our fear. Second, by this word fear we are to understand the Word of God, the rule and director of our fear.

Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.

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.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

The humanist, who read too much, ate too much. He quoted and burped, and these two complaints were equally repugnant to his neighbor, a self-made aristocrat, Madame Lenoir.

There is nothing so ridiculous absurd* but some philosopher has said it.

I don't like quotes, I prefer quotations

He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than oneself.

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.

There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband

He rang'd his tropes, and preach'd up patience;Back'd his opinion with quotations.

Quotations are the gold mine of human mind, the silver pearls of the wisdom ocean, and the cool drops of the rain of intelligence.

To read quotations is to live in a planet with multiple suns!

language of these intellectually impoverished young people is larded with ready-made phrases. They quote Stalin instead of thinking for themselves; they derive their opinion from Pravda editorials. They are arrogant and complacent, and everything that pertains to them is the greatest thing there is: