Quotations Quotes

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

Orson Welles

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 might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - If I can remember any of the damn things.

Dorothy Parke

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

Andre Malraux

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

Benjamin Disraeli

People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.

Graham Greene, A Burnt - Out Case

I hate quotations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Rudyard Kipling

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Hesketh Pearson

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

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

Sir Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1930

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

C. E. Montague