Quotations calcify into clichés.

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

— Peg Bracken

We are ruled by quotations.

— Susan Sontag

“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

“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

“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

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

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

— Anais Nin

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“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

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

— Alan Lindsay

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

“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

“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

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— Laura Ramirez

My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My…

— Nigel Rees