the majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical…

The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an…

— Ethel Smyth

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— Laura Ramirez

“People go out to look at sunrises and sunsets who do not recognize their own, quietly and happily, but know that it is foreign…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Perhaps the most powerful and appealing aspect of another's words, however, is simply their convenience. Whether distilled in the briefest apophthegm, or spread out…

— Jasper Siegel Seneschal

I took ethics classes in college, and it always amazes me how they [tabloids] will blatantly say something that I did not say, in…

— Carrie Underwood

“Quote is a verb. Quotation is the noun.”

— Alan Lindsay

“A good quotation must be provocative; as provocative as to demolish an old wrong castle in the mind with a single strike!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.

— Anais Nin

A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest…

— Jonathan Swift

“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“By the way, Dorian, he (Lord Henry) said, after a pause, what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and…

— Oscar Wilde

“In the United States, periods and commas go inside the quotation mark. In Britain, they go outside the quotation mark. Squiggly said, “No.” (United…

— Mignon Fogarty

We are ruled by quotations.

— Susan Sontag

Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal.

— Peg Bracken