Quotations Quote by Barbara Pym

Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable…

— Robertson Davies

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good…

— Winston Churchill

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

— Winston Churchill

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied…

— Winston Churchill

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that…

— Hesketh Pearson

A person can understand almost everything deeply through quotations.

— Vikrant Parsai

It isn't much of a book of quotations if I am not in it.

— Ernie J Zelinski

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

— Guy Debord

I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice,…

— J. D. Salinger

Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors

— Benjamin Franklin

Reading any collection of a man's quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the…

— Christopher Buckley

“I am more well known for quotes than books.”

— Steven Magee