In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving... — William Francis Henry King Copy Share Image
“Quote: a banal proverb that is considered profound when uttered by a celebrity.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
“Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“If God had wanted us to judge other people, we'd all have been born with silly wigs.” — Adriano Bulla Copy Share Image
A fine quotation has really no meaning only when one reads without getting any inspiration from it. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Don’t you love quotations? I am immensely fond of them; a certain proof of erudition… [I]f you should happen to write an… — Frances Brooke Copy Share Image
Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
“Your name still rings a bell when you say something good, not by causing catastrophe in a bid to sound more interesting.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are …… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to write a quote that would strike your core. Check this out: FUCK YOU!!! Process that…unquote. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Quotes are so very useful and powerful in our daily lives in so many ways ¦ They can be used in everyday… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the… — William Safire Copy Share Image
“Some people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no longer love,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own… It would… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
An indirect quotation we can usually expect to rate only as better or worse, more or less faithful, and we cannot even… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image