Attribution Quote by Gary Saul Morson

“[An example of misattribution:] If you don’t know the source of a quote, you can always make it sound better by attributing it to…

— Jakub Marian

I rarely find that things put in quotes, attributed to me, are things that I said -certainly in the context in which they are…

— Annie Potts

My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My…

— Nigel Rees

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

— Samuel Johnson

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that…

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

A wide range of quotations are necessary for the repertoire of a well-rounded speaker. Quotations are able to illustrate in a few words what…

— Carolyn Warner

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

My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that next to…

— James Boswell

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

— Gary Saul Morson

“I hate when people say "quote" when what they really mean is "quotation." How's that for a quote?”

— Anonymous

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter,…

— Louise Imogen Guiney

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

— Guy Debord