Quotation Quotes

138 quotes by 92 authors

Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors... — Thomas Browne
Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I… — Joseph Addison
But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help… — Evelyn Waugh
My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that next to the… — James Boswell
I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may… — James Boswell
Liberals dispute that Reagan won the Cold War on the basis of their capacity to put mocking quotation marks around the word, won. That's pretty… — Ann Coulter
In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving... — William Francis Henry King
A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice. — Emile M. Cioran
I like commas. I detest semi-colons â€” I donâ€™t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found… — E L Doctorow
The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of… — Isaac D'Israeli
The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. Whenever… — Isaac D'Israeli
It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money… — Isaac D'Israeli
This is one of the results of that adventurous spirit which is now stalking forth and raging for its own innovations. We have not only… — Isaac D'Israeli
Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till they… — Isaac D'Israeli
Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about… — Isaac D'Israeli
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word;… — Samuel Johnson
Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor. — H. L. Mencken
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldnâ€™t make any sense if quoted as… — Robert Benchley

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