Quotations Quotes
428 Quotations quotes by 258 unique authors
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In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
— George Eliot
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
— William Feather
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
— Arthur Helps
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
— Samuel Johnson
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He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
— Rudyard Kipling
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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
— Karl Kraus
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Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
— Groucho Marx
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
— Andre Maurois
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The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
— John Milton
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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
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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if…
— Leo Rosten
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
— George Santayana
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I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
— Tom Stoppard
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In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.
— Evelyn Waugh
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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
— Orson Welles
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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
— Oscar Wilde
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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.
— Virginia Woolf
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I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.
— Loretta Young
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
— Oscar Wilde
Who Wrote These Quotations Quotes
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