Quotes with quotation

  • In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.

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  • Joseph Roux 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
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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  • Brendan Behan A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Samuel Johnson Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Janet Malcolm Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
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  • Robert Burns I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
    Robert Burns
    Scottish Poet (1759 - 1796)
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  • Evelyn Waugh In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Arthur Miller 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.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Jorge Luis Borges Life itself is a quotation.
    Jorge Luis Borges
    Argentijns writer (1899 - 1986)
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  • Oscar Wilde Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ben Shapiro Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do the Constitution: as a Chinese menu designed to allow picking and choosing. That's because when many Democrats take the Bible as a whole, they realize how much they despise it.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • 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
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Isaac D'Israeli The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
    Isaac D'Israeli
    British scholar and writer (1766 - 1848)
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  • Robertson Davies Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • James Baldwin When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Quotation: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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