Top 180 Quotation Quotes & Sayings

A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice.

In the museums, everything is in quotation marks.

A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation.

To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.

Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'

You evidently do not suffer from "quotation-hunger" as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as I always want to know where a quotation comes from.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

There's a famous quotation from the time the Buddha learned of the deaths of two of his greatest disciples: "It's as if the sun and the moon have left the sky." From that quotation, I would guess that while the Buddha loved all beings everywhere, with no exclusion, he also had relationships that were special to him, and he felt their loss.

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.

Quotation brings to many people one of the intensest joys of living.

Every great quotation carries the power to shape the world like a river.

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.

The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.

I took ethics classes in college, and it always amazes me how they [tabloids] will blatantly say something that I did not say, in quotation marks. The first thing that we learned in ethics is that you better have it right. If you're putting quotation marks around something, it better be exactly what that person said.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: "However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation correctly, an earlier source will be pointed out to you."

The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own.... It would be an understatement to say that these books lean on one another. To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism.

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. Whenever the mind of a writer is saturated with the full inspiration of a great author, a quotation gives completeness to the whole; it seals his feelings with undisputed authority.

I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.

Quotation confesses inferiority.

Life itself is a quotation.

It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation.

Human success is a quotation from overhead.

Clichés are static, the emotion behind them long spent. If you are tempted to use them, here is a saying of my mother’s: Fang pi bu-cho, cho pi bu-fang. Basically that translates to: "Loud farts don’t stink, and the really smelly ones don’t make a sound." In other words: When you’re full of beans, you just blow a lot of hot air. If you want to have a real impact, be deadly but silent. Oh, also recognize the difference between a bad cliché and a good quotation. My mother’s saying is a good quotation. You should use it often.

Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.

A humorous quotation is a little window on the world that gives life a comic twist.

The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

The greatest tragedy for a good quotation is to be anonymous; and for the bad one, is to be known and famous!

I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art.

Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.

Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that next to the simple imitation of sounds and gestures, Quotation is the most natural and most frequent habitude of human nature. For, Quotation must not be confined to passages adduced out of authors. He who cites the opinion, or remark, or saying of another, whether it has been written or spoken, is certainly one who quotes; and this we shall find to be universally practiced.

I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a word like "goeth"?

I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.

There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A good quotation is a very strong wind; it can change a man's direction!

I know people are really interested in everything that the celebrities are doing, even if you don't consider yourself a "celebrity." What always would drive me crazy is - I took ethics classes in college - and it always amazes me how there would blatantly be something that I did not say in quotation marks. If you're putting quotation marks around it, it better be exactly what that person said.

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.

I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses

Quotation lovers love rare words.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into books of a thousand pages. Through the centuries quotation collectors have saved quotations that would otherwise be lost.

We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: "It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.

Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.