Best Quoted Quotations

132 Quoted quotes by 120 unique authors

Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not… — Charles Spurgeon
The Tezuman priests have a sophisticated calendar and an advanced horology," quoted Rincewind. "Ah," said Eric, "Good." "No," said Rincewind patiently. "It means time measurement."… — Terry Pratchett
I would remain nearer you for what time there is." "Gone in one faerie sigh," she quoted. Leather-clad fingers brushed over her short hair, rested… — Holly Black
She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She knew why I… — James Ellroy
All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once. — Jim Butcher
You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live… — George MacDonald
I'll tell you something. Once I was very fond of a poem by Emily Dickinson or somebody. I only remember one line of it, but… — Peter S. Beagle
...then he looked at my T-shirt and saw Byron's picture on it and he quoted "She Walks in Beauty," which is like my favorite poem… — Christopher Moore
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet… — Abraham Lincoln
The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi,… — Thomas Merton
Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love. Gandhi,… — Thomas Merton
It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling in… — David Nicholls
Bella, I've already expended a great deal of personal effort at this point to keep you alive. I'm not about to let you behind the… — Stephenie Meyer
And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger. — Viktor E. Frankl
I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey — John Cheever
Elizabeth’s entire body started to tremble as his lips began descending to hers. and she sought to forestall what her heart knew was inevitable by… — Judith McNaught
There is no more beautiful sight in all this world than to see a family praying together. There is real meaning behind the oft-quoted ‘The… — Thomas S. Monson
I am Sa’kagé a lord of shadows. I claim the shadows that the Shadow may not. I am the strong arm of deliverance. I am… — Brent Weeks
You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore." I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk — Chuck Palahniuk
He can’t ground her if he’s already killed her,” I pointed out when Juliana quoted this to me. “Well, he can, but it wouldn’t have… — Claire LaZebnik
I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the centre of the universe and… — Galileo Galilei
If kisses were what you were looking for, little fool, why didn't you come to me? quoted by Susannah Simon — Meg Cabot
After all, it was never Darnay he quoted, only Sydney, drunk and wrecked and dissipated. Sydney, who died for love. — Cassandra Clare
Zerbrowski said, "Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try." It took me a second to realize that he had just quoted Star… — Laurell K. Hamilton
...Having no recourse, I feel back on Shakespeare. Leif would recognize it and understand the context properly. With my remaining few seconds of consciousness, I… — Kevin Hearne

Who Wrote These Quoted Quotes

120 authors contributed a total of 132 Quoted Quotes, led by these top contributors:

Best Quoted Quotations

More Ways to Read Quoted Quotes

Who Wrote These Quoted Quotes