Collecting Quote by Susan Sontag

“The forms of direct-half-hidden and completely hidden quoting were endlessly varied, as were the forms for framing quotations by a context, forms of intonational…

— Mikhail Bakthin

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

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

And the irony is that they wrote better without access to my quotes.

— Steve Carlton

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

— Guy Debord

Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal.

— Peg Bracken

“People who like quotations love meaningless generalisations.”

— Graham Greene

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

— Vikrant Parsai

Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them.

— Dorothy Richardson

Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.

— Trevanian