Famous Quotes Quotes

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
-- Lord Peter Wimsey

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
-- Joseph Roux

A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
-- The Talmud

A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
-- Robert Chapman

Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.
-- James Ramsey

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
-- Jean Rostand

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
-- Samuel Johnson

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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!
-- Cao Xueqin

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
-- George Bernard Shaw

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. •George Bernard Shaw It is better to be quotable than to be honest. •Tom Stoppard Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. •Orson Welles Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
-- George Bernard Shaw

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
-- Michel De Montaigne

I quote others only in order the better to express myself. •Michel De Montaigne Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. •Jean Rostand I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
-- Michel De Montaigne

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
-- Seneca

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
-- Cliff Fadiman

I think we must.. quote whenver we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
-- Clifford Fadiman

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.
-- Mortimer J Adler

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.
-- Winston Churchill

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
-- Tom Stoppard