Appropriation Quote by 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

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

— A. A. Milne

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

— Guy Debord

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

— Isaac D'Israeli

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

— Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

“What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone else’s orange. You suck the slice,…

— Anne Carson

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

— Ambrose Bierce

Using quotations was at first quite spontaneous for me, but then this use became strengthened through reflection. But originally this practice came out of…

— Susan Sontag

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

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

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

— Oscar Wilde