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428 Quotations quotes by 258 unique authors
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A well arranged scrapbook, filled with choice selections, is a most excellent companion for anyone who has the least literary taste.
— Channing Tatum
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I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to examine…
— Pierre Bayle
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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.
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The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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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
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APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready-made-up in the chemists’ shops, and which often save…
— Richard Whately
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For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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
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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly…
— Norman Douglas
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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
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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
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While reading writers of great formulatory power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I find I can scarcely get through a page without having to…
— Joseph Epstein
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A writer can get into a vast deal of trouble through misquotation. If you ever want to receive lots of mail, I recommend you get…
— Joseph Epstein
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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
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At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which he always carried…
— Hannah Arendt
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Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to…
— Arthur Helps
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In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving...
— William Francis Henry King
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A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your…
— Winston Churchill
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A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice.
— Emile M. Cioran
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When you see yourself quoted in print and you’re sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.
— Laurence J. Peter
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There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its…
— Richard Chenevix Trench
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