In the case of good books,
the point is not how many of
them you can get through,
but rather how many
can get through to you.
?Mortimer J. Adler
One must be a wise reader
to quote wisely and well.
?Amos Bronson Alcott
Quotes from Mao, Castro, and
Che Guevara... are as germane to
our highly technological, computerized
society as a stagecoach on a jet
runway at Kennedy airport.
?Saul Alinsky
The surest way to make a monkey
of a man is to quote him.
?Robert Benchley
I must claim the quoter's privilege
of giving only as much of the text
as will suit my purpose, said Tan-Chun.
If I told you how it went on, I
should end up by contradicting myself!
?Cao Xueqin
A quotation, like a pun, should
come unsought, and then be
welcomed only for some propriety
of felicity justifying the intrusion.
?Robert Chapman
It is a good thing for an uneducated
man to read a book of quotations.
?Winston Churchill
That is the point of quotations. One
can use another's words to be insulting.
?Amanda Cross
I hate quotations.
Tell me what you know.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
I think we must quote whenever
we feel that the allusion is
interesting or helpful or amusing.
?Cliff Fadiman
Stronger than an army is a
quotation whose time has come.
?W. I. E. Gates
Quotations (such as have point and
lack triteness) from the great old
authors are an act of reverence
on the part of the quoter, and a
blessing to a public
grown superficial and external.
?Louise Imogen Guiney
Quotations offer one kind of break in what
the eye can see, the ear can hear.
?Ihab Hassan
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts
the great rules of life into short sentences,
that may be easily impressed on the memory,
and so recur habitually to the mind.
?Samuel Johnson
The ability to quote is a serviceable
substitute for wit.
?W. Somerset Maugham
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride
and privilege of the learned. A
widely-read man never quotes
accurately, for the rather obvious reason
that he has read too widely.
?Hesketh Pearson
Apothegms to thinking minds are
the seeds from which spring vast fields
of new thought, that may be further
cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.
?James Ramsey
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
Famous remarks are very
seldom quoted correctly.
?Simeon Strunsky
A quotation at the right moment
is like bread to the famished.
?The Talmud
A facility for quotation covers
the absence of original thought.
?Lord Peter Wimsey
The American people would not want
to know of any misquotes that
Dan Quayle may or may not make.
?Vice President Dan Quayle
Quoting: the act of repeating
erroneously the words of another.
?Ambrose Bierce
You could compile the worst book in
the world entirely out of selected passages
from the best writes in the world.
?G K Chesterton
The wisdom of the wise and
the experience of the ages are
perpetuated by quotations.
?Benjamin Disraeli
I think we must.. quote
whenver we feel that the
allusion is interesting
or helpful or amusing.
?Clifford Fadiman
I quote others only in order
the better to express myself.
?Michel De Montaigne
Certain brief sentences are
peerless in their ability
to give one the feeling that
nothing remains to be said.
?Jean Rostand
I shall never be ashamed of citing
a bad author if the line is good.
?Seneca
I often quote myself.
It adds spice to my conversation.
?George Bernard Shaw
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
?Tom Stoppard
Now we sit through Shakespeare
in order to recognize the quotations.
?Orson Welles
Most people are other people.
Their thoughts are someone else's
opinions, their lives a mimicry,
their passions a quotation.
?Oscar Wilde
