Joy Quote by Marlene Dietrich

“It is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed by someone wiser than oneself.”

— Marlene Dietrich

Don’t you love quotations? I am immensely fond of them; a certain proof of erudition… [I]f you should happen to write an insipid poem...…

— Frances Brooke

A quotation in the right place at the right time is like water in a desert.

— Vikrant Parsai

Quotations cause all kinds of trouble.

— Willis Regier

“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

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— Laura Ramirez

“Perhaps the most powerful and appealing aspect of another's words, however, is simply their convenience. Whether distilled in the briefest apophthegm, or spread out…

— Jasper Siegel Seneschal

I took ethics classes in college, and it always amazes me how they [tabloids] will blatantly say something that I did not say, in…

— Carrie Underwood

“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.

— Anais Nin

A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest…

— Jonathan Swift