Books Quote by Benjamin Franklin

I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.

— Benjamin Franklin

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

— John Selden

Though I may not . . . be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

— Samuel Johnson

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

Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.

— Alec-Tweedie

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

— Jeanne Calment

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

I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax…

— George Eliot

An author should be delighted, not annoyed when he hears himself persistently misquoted. He could receive no higher compliment. It proves that the world…

— Hesketh Pearson

The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return…

— Isaac D'Israeli

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

— Barbara Pym