Quotation Quotes

138 quotes by 92 authors

A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find… — Robertson Davies
Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks. — Paul Eldridge
You can always find an evolutionary quotation for anything. But the question is whether it's functional, which is not the same as being evolutionary. — Daniel Kahneman
When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page. — George Steiner
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. — Samuel Johnson
My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's… — Nigel Rees
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking. — Dorothy L. Sayers
In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. — Evelyn Waugh
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. — Oscar Wilde
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. — Oscar Wilde
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. — W. Somerset Maugham
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. — Dorothy L. Sayers
Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing it in quotation… — William Strunk, Jr.
Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author. — Samuel Johnson
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive. — Mark Twain
You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long… — Jeanette Winterson
It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of… — Oscar Wilde

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92 authors contributed a total of 138 Quotation Quotes, led by these top contributors: