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I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found… — E L Doctorow
Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers... — Isaac D'Israeli
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
All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original… — Isaac D'Israeli
A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to be… — 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
Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers, when… — 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
It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion... — Abraham Lincoln
I never said half the crap people said I did. — Albert Einstein
Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an… — Samuel Johnson
I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those… — Samuel Johnson
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
Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the… — Alexander Smith
Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has… — George Santayana
Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without… — Michel de Montaigne
It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations. — Maurice Chevalier
My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book,—it is… — Thomas Love Peacock
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything. — Andre Malraux
Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor. — H. L. Mencken
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine… — Michel de Montaigne

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