Quotations Quotes

428 Quotations quotes by 258 unique authors

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. — Clifton Fadiman
There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband. — Clifford Odets
We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we… — Ihab Hassan
If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge of the natural… — Unknown Author
No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest… — Unknown Author
Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it. — Eric Partridge
Looking for a cricket quote for inspiration? Or, maybe a cricket quote to make you laugh? Check out this collection of the best cricket quotations. — John Arlott
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language. — Samuel Johnson
Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and their fascinating history. — Marjorie Garber
History is not just about dates and quotations. And it's not just about politics, the military and social issues, though much of it of course… — David McCullough
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. — Hesketh Pearson
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. — Oscar Wilde
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you. — Edward Abbey
Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”' — William Safire
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation. — Emile M. Cioran
Human success is a quotation from overhead. — Charles Henry Parkhurst
For some Church members the Book of Mormon remains unread. Others use it occasionally as if it were merely a handy book of quotations. Still… — Neal A. Maxwell
I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats… — Bill Gates
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I illustrate with a quotation from the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty, who died recently and is, I suspect, now having a lengthy conversation with his… — Richard Rorty
Here are more quotes about chemistry and famous quotations made by chemists relating to their science. There's no way you can create a chemistry where… — Michael Parkinson
Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations. — Margaret Drabble
My God, what a clumsy olla putrida James Joyce is! Nothing but old fags and cabbage stumps of quotations from the Bible and the rest,… — D. H. Lawrence

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