Quotations Quotes

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?

I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffable idea I seek to express.

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.