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A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book it is a plaything.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
It is a good thing for an understand man to read books of quotations.
Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote, and think they grow immortal as they quote.
One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats and one always secrets too much jelly.
We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
Be sure you to go the author to get at HIS Meaning, not to find yours.
Quotation, sir, is a good thing; there is a community of mind in it; classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
An apt quotation is as good as an original remark.
The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.
Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author.
In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but do not name them.
The man whose book is filled with quotations, has been said to creep along the shore of authors, as if he were afraid to trust himself to the free compass of reasoning. I would rather defend such authors by a different allusion, and ask whether honey is the worse for being gathered from many flowers.
It is the beauty and independent worth of the citations, far more than their appropriateness, which have made Johnson’s Dictionary popular even as a reading book.
If these little speaks of holy fire thus heaped up together do not give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet they will sometimes help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, to employ and hallow a fancy.
Next to the originator of a goof sentence is the first quoter of it.
To select well among old things is among equal to inventing new ones.
Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody’s reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get more. Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it.
A couplet of verse, a period depend for their flavor upon the terseness of their expression, for thoughts are grains of sugar or salt, that must be melted in a drop of water.
A verse may find him who a sermon flies.
The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well changed pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air.
Have at you with a proverb.
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) English author.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) English prime minister.
It is a good thing for an understand man to read books of quotations.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British statesman.
Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote, and think they grow immortal as they quote.
Edward Young (1683-1765) English poet.
One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats and one always secrets too much jelly.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) British author.
We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.
Clifton Fadiman (b,1904) American critic.
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Anatole France (1844-1924) French author.
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
Tom Stoppard (b.1937) British playwright.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Robert Benchley (1889-1945) American humorous writer.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic.
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
Be sure you to go the author to get at HIS Meaning, not to find yours.
John Ruskin (1819-1900) English critic.
Quotation, sir, is a good thing; there is a community of mind in it; classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Johnson.
An apt quotation is as good as an original remark.
Proverb.
The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.
Mazzini.
Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author.
Johnson.
In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but do not name them.
Selden.
The man whose book is filled with quotations, has been said to creep along the shore of authors, as if he were afraid to trust himself to the free compass of reasoning. I would rather defend such authors by a different allusion, and ask whether honey is the worse for being gathered from many flowers.
It is the beauty and independent worth of the citations, far more than their appropriateness, which have made Johnson’s Dictionary popular even as a reading book.
Coleridge.
If these little speaks of holy fire thus heaped up together do not give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet they will sometimes help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, to employ and hallow a fancy.
Jeremy Taylor.
Next to the originator of a goof sentence is the first quoter of it.
Emerson.
To select well among old things is among equal to inventing new ones.
Trublet.
Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody’s reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get more. Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it.
Coleridge.
A couplet of verse, a period depend for their flavor upon the terseness of their expression, for thoughts are grains of sugar or salt, that must be melted in a drop of water.
J.P.Senn.
A verse may find him who a sermon flies.
Herbert
Simms.
Have at you with a proverb.
Shakespeare.
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