Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
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When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
Benjamin Disraeli
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Benjamin Disraeli
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
Samuel Johnson
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson
Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Brendan Francis
Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
Letitia Landon
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
Janet Malcolm
Neil often uses this quotation from the Eddie Murphy movie and the air hostess obviously took it amiss.
Riaan Louw
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Bierce
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
Robert Chapman
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.
Charles Edward Montague
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Joseph Roux
I always have a quotation for everything, it saves original thinking.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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