| Author |
Quotes |
| Ambrose Bierce | Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another. |
| Amos Bronson Alcott | One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. |
| Benjamin Disraeli | The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. |
| Cao Xueqin | 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! |
| Cliff Fadiman | I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. |
| G K Chesterton | You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writes in the world. |
| Hesketh Pearson | 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. |
| Ihab Hassan | Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear. |
| James Ramsey | Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged. |
| Jean Rostand | Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. |
| Joseph Roux | A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. |
| Lord Peter Wimsey | A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. |
| Louise Imogen Guiney | Quotations 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. |
| Michel de Montaigne | I quote others only in order the better to express myself. |
| Mortimer J Adler | 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. |
| Orson Welles | Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. |
| Robert Benchley | The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. |
| Robert Chapman | A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion. |
| Saul Alinsky | 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. |
| Simeon Strunsky | Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. |
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