Abuse Quote by Isaac D'Israeli

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

— Isaac D'Israeli

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

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

— Guy Debord

Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or stolen authority.

— Justin Kaplan

Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.

— James Boswell

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

We are ruled by quotations.

— Susan Sontag

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

— Gary Saul Morson

“Never say "quotes" when you mean "quotations.”

— G. Anthony Harvey

Quotation is a method of appropriation which is invincible, I think. It's not a procedure which displeases me, contrary to recycling.

— Susan Sontag

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

— Hesketh Pearson

I think quotes are very dangerous things.

— Kate Bush