Blessing Quote by Samuel Laman Blanchard

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

— Vicesimus Knox

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 the highest compliment you can pay an author.

— Samuel Johnson

In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving...

— William Francis Henry King

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

We are ruled by quotations.

— Susan Sontag

Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till…

— Isaac D'Israeli

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceived who could see nothing more in a quotation than an extract

— Benjamin Disraeli

Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain…

— Gary Saul Morson

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

— Guy Debord

Even the art of quoting is a conservative art most of the time, in order to propel the same ideas and the same self-congratulatory…

— Fady Joudah

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

— Gary Saul Morson