quotes about Quotations
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
-- Ambrose BierceSource : Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.174, 谷月社
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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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Quotation brings to many people one of the intensest joys of living.
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I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses
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I surround myself with inspirational quotations.
-- Blake MycoskieSource : Blake Mycoskie (2012). “Start Something That Matters”, p.58, Random House
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That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
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To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.
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You can always find an evolutionary quotation for anything. But the question is whether it's functional, which is not the same as being evolutionary.
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I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a word like "goeth"?
-- Gary Saul MorsonSource : Gary Saul Morson (2011). “The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture”, p.4, Yale University Press
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A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.
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We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves.
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The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.
-- Giuseppe MazziniSource : Giuseppe Mazzini (1864). “Life & Writings of Joseph Mazzini”
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There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.
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Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.
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Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.
-- John WyndhamSource : John Wyndham (2008). “The Midwich Cuckoos”, p.85, Penguin UK
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Any stupid remark, quoted often enough, becomes gospel.
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I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.
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The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.
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You know what my favourite quotation is?...It's from Chaucer... Criseyde says it, "I am myne owene woman, wel at ese.
-- Mary McCarthySource : "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt". Short story by ary McCarthy, first published in "Partisan Review", 1941.
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I quote others in order to better express myself.
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I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation correctly, an earlier source will be pointed out to you.
-- Nigel ReesSource : "Brewer's Famous Quotations" by Nigel Rees, London: Cassell, (p. x), 1994.
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If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.
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You can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.
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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.
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Oh, I don't read. I skulk about in search of quotations that might make me appear educated.
-- Tasha AlexanderSource : Tasha Alexander (2013). “The Lady Emily Omnibus (Books 1-4): And Only to Deceive, A Poisoned Season, A Fatal Waltz, Tears of Pearl”, p.474, Hachette UK
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A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
-- Thomas Love PeacockSource : "Crotchet Castle".
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It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book.
-- Vicesimus KnoxSource : Vicesimus Knox (1805). “Winter Evenings: Or Lucubrations on Life and Letters. ...”, p.47
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Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation
-- Willard Van Orman QuineSource : "The Ways of Paradox and other Essays (The Ways of Paradox)". Book by Willard Van Orman Quine, 1966.
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One may quote till one compiles.
-- Isaac D'IsraeliSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 653-54, Curiosities of Literature, 1922.
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Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.
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Proverbs are potted wisdom.
-- Charles BuxtonSource : Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”
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Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them.
-- Dorothy RichardsonSource : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”