Quotes About Quotations

In Surprised by Joy Lewis notes how his father, Albert, was fond of telling anecdotes about Sir John Mahaffy, anecdotes which Lewis later (at Oxford) found attached to Benjamin Jowett. This, alas, is the fate of any great figure: to serve as a convenient magnet for stories or quotations that other people want to perpetuate, however inaccurately.

I quote others only to better express myself.

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.