Quotations Quotes

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Rudyard Kipling

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Sir Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1930

People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.

Graham Greene, A Burnt - Out Case

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Benjamin Disraeli

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

Oscar Wilde

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

Andre Malraux

To be amused by what you read - - That is the great spring of happy quotations.

C. E. Montague

A book of quotations... can never be complete.

Robert M. Hamilton

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Hesketh Pearson

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

H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare

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 Guiney

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.

Marlene Dietrich

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

Orson Welles