Chosen Quote by William Francis Henry King

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

— Samuel Johnson

Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.

— Gary Saul Morson

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

— Vicesimus Knox

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

“Writing comes from the angels in your soul. The gifts there are shared through the keyboard to the page. The reader finds everything they…

— Barbara Beck-Elam

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

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

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

A text may be superbly written, exquisitely subtle, deeply meaningful, but still seem like a luxury extra, something we add to the already well-stocked…

— Michel Faber

“Quotes are little packages of knowledge shared from others who have walked the path before, during and after us. They inspire, teach, encourage, inform…

— Kelly McNelis Senegor