It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered his house… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Always keep good thoughts in mind and judge everyone and everything by them and definitely each and every time you will be… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Using quotations was at first quite spontaneous for me, but then this use became strengthened through reflection. But originally this practice came… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
“You can make something mean anything you want. And you can spend a great deal of time and effort choosing your words… — Frank Portman Copy Share Image
In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Falling in love is like submerging beneath the ocean with a submarine; you leave the outside world and wander in the silence… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable. — Justin Kaplan Copy Share Image
“In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Great quotation collections glean the millennia, distill essences, and battle for bragging rights about who’s bigger, who’s smarter, who’s best. Who-knows-who-said-what has… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes you lose your way; you walk in the twilight of a forest; and suddenly you see an old but a beautiful… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Quotations always helps us to come out of a mood. Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do… — Kishore Bansal Copy Share Image
“Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours’, as long… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Appreciate those people who find time for you in there busy schedule, but really love those people who never see there schedule… — Annonymous Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof… — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Copy Share Image
With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the… — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
Here are more quotes about chemistry and famous quotations made by chemists relating to their science. There's no way you can create… — Michael Parkinson Copy Share Image