20 Quotes on Quotation
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
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I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.
Author:
Bill Walsh
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We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.
Author:
Michael Steele
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It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!
Author:
Anna Spencer
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I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
Author:
Dorothy Sayers
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A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Author:
Joseph Roux
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To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.
Author:
Charles Montague
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In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.
Author:
Arthur Miller
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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Author:
W. Maugham
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Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
Author:
Janet Malcolm
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An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
Author:
Letitia Landon
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Author:
Brendan Francis
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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Author:
Isaac D'Israeli
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
Author:
James Baldwin
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