Quotation Quotes
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It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation.
— Robert Benchley
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— Joseph Stalin
There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.
— James Boswell
In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving ...
— William Francis Henry King
He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed.
— Philip Pullman
For the most difficult way to be retweeted, or, liked: be thought-provoking. For the easiest way: quote Oprah, or, the Bible.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
What we are trying to do is to understand this confusion and not cover it up with quotations.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The greatest tragedy for a good quotation is to be anonymous; and for the bad one, is to be known and famous!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
— Janet Malcolm
Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.
— Gary Saul Morson
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole.
— Ayn Rand
I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another.
— Catherine Brady
Is the murk which lives inside me,actually a dead star? — Sameer Khan
Mr. da Silva had a relevant quotation for everything that happened to him and in this way evaded real life.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
The two of us snuggled like quotation marks in his room full words.
— Michelle Hodkin
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.
— Mark Twain
If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
— Socrates
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.
— John Jay Chapman
Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.unsourced, suspected false quotation — Adolf Hitler
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
A good quotation must be provocative; as provocative as to demolish an old wrong castle in the mind with a single strike!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
It is a sure sign of troubled minds, the habit of quotation.
— Hilary Mantel
It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!
— Anna Garlin Spencer
Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.
— Samuel Johnson
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.
— Daniel Kahneman
Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Quotation confesses inferiority.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing but quotations left for us. Our language is a system of quotations.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Quotation lovers love rare words.
— Willis Regier
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
— Oscar Wilde
Sometimes it's good to lose something/someone. Because we get what we deserve, not what we desire for.
— M.H. Rakib
Quotations introduced by that are regarded as in indirect discourse and not enclosed in quotation marks.
— William Strunk Jr.
In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.
— George Orwell
When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.
— George Steiner
I rather be thin dog running free than a fat one chained
— Thabiso Monkoe
Hiding behind the mask of a quotation, using someone else's words to bolster our own softly blooming emotions.
— Vicki Pettersson
I twisted my arm to curl him behind me and he unfolded there, the two of us snuggled like quotation marks in his room full of words.
— Michelle Hodkin
Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors ...
— Thomas Browne
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— John Williams
In the museums, everything is in quotation marks.
— Mason Cooley
Quote is a verb. Quotation is the noun.
— Alan Lindsay
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
— Brendan Behan
To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.
— Charles Edward Montague
Quotation brings to many people one of the intensest joys of living.
— Bernard Darwin
Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.
— Samuel Johnson
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Someday I'll catch that man without a quotation and he'll look undressed, the Duke said.
— Anonymous
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
— Samuel Johnson
Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
— Edward Abbey
And as their love had begun a little before a quotation, so it ended a little after one.
— Robert Aickman
Your vibe creates your tribe.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
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
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
— Bernard Malamud
The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.
— Richard P. Feynman
I hate when people say "quote" when what they really mean is "quotation." How's that for a quote?
— Man Martin
They were curved together like quotation marks with no words in between.
— Sarah Rees Brennan
You know what my favourite quotation is? ... It's from Chaucer ... Criseyde says it, I am myne owene woman, wel at ese.
— Mary McCarthy
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
When given freedom of speech, most men merely quote other men.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door.
— Richard Hamming
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
— Joseph Roux
Your name still rings a bell when you say something good, not by causing catastrophe in a bid to sound more interesting.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotation is a noun. Quote is a verb.
— Eusebius Clay
I ... confirm the fact - with a certain bittersweet melancholy - that everything in the world brings me back to a quotation or a book.
— Jorge Luis Borges
The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them.
— Gary Saul Morson
You can't be conferred with a glory you never configured your mind to come to.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Avoid overuse of 'quotation "marks."'
— William Safire
A good quotation is a very strong wind; it can change a man's direction!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
If God had wanted us to judge other people, we'd all have been born with silly wigs.
— Adriano Bulla
I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning.
— Masha Tupitsyn
To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs
— Jerome Stern
Every great quotation carries the power to shape the world like a river.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
