Top 162 Quotations Quotes & Sayings

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

Quotations cause all kinds of trouble.

My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My first law is: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to Bernard Shaw - which I don't mean to be taken literally, but as a general observation of the habit people have of attaching remarks to the nearest obvious speaker. Churchill, Wilde, Orson Welles and Alexander Woollcott are other useful figures upon whom to father remarks when you don't know who really said them.

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

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

We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Quotations are powerful tools. Michel de Montaigne, the father of all essayists, observed, 'I quote others only to better express myself.' Intrepid quotations detective Ralph Keyes helps us to discover the clear truth about exactly what was said and who exactly said it.

Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.

Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them.

I was fascinated by quotations and lists. And then I noticed that other people were fascinated by quotations and lists: people as different as Borges and Walter Benjamin, Novalis and Godard.

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

It isn't much of a book of quotations if I am not in it.

Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book of Mormon.

We are ruled by quotations.

You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations.

Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.

Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.

Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw.

That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

Quotations calcify into clichés.

Always verify quotations!

Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.

I surround myself with inspirational quotations.

An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.

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

To read quotations is to live in a planet with multiple suns!

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

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

People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.

In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations.

A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes.

General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives.

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.

A wide range of quotations are necessary for the repertoire of a well-rounded speaker. Quotations are able to illustrate in a few words what is difficult to explain in many.

Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts of extracts become quotations.

Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and their fascinating history.

Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts.

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

the majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore.

My skull is crammed with quotations.

It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book.

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Quotations--always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.