Begets Quote by Robertson Davies

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

— Barbara Pym

I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax…

— George Eliot

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

— Guy Debord

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

— Vicesimus Knox

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good…

— Winston Churchill

It isn't much of a book of quotations if I am not in it.

— Ernie J Zelinski

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

— Thomas Love Peacock

“I don't like quotes, I prefer quotations”

— Mark Hamilton

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

— G. Anthony Harvey

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

— Winston Churchill

A fine quotation has really no meaning only when one reads without getting any inspiration from it.

— Vikrant Parsai

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that…

— Hesketh Pearson