Anthology Quote by Gary Saul Morson

We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves.

— Gary Saul Morson

It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book.

— Vicesimus Knox

Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into…

— Willis Regier

“Quotes are little packages of knowledge shared from others who have walked the path before, during and after us. They inspire, teach, encourage, inform…

— Kelly McNelis Senegor

It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their…

— Isaac D'Israeli

An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.

— Gary Saul Morson

When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a…

— Samuel Johnson

Anatole France frankly advised, "When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it." Yes, indeed, but…

— Gary Saul Morson

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.…

— Isaac D'Israeli

Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.

— Gary Saul Morson

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.

— Isaac D'Israeli

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

— Guy Debord