Quotes with quotations

  • Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

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  • William Ewart Gladstone Apt quotations carry conviction.
    William Ewart Gladstone
    British statesman (1809 - 1898)
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  • Thomas Love Peacock A book that furnishes no quotations is no book, it is a plaything.
    Thomas Love Peacock
    English novelist, poet, and official (1785 - 1866)
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  • André Malraux Be careful - with quotations, you can damn anything.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Eliot In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bob Dylan In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Winston Churchill It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
    My early life (1930)
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Luminous quotations alone, by their interest, for the dullness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Orson Welles Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Virginia Woolf One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats -and one always secretes too much jelly.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Guy Debord Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
    Guy Debord
    French philosopher (1931 - 1994)
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  • Walter Benjamin Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Ihab Hassan Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carl Van Doren The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.
    Carl Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1950)
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  • Carolyn Gold Heilbrun The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
    Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
    American academic, feminist and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Charles Edward Montague To be amused by what you read, that is the great spring of happy quotations.
    Charles Edward Montague
    English journalist and writer (1867 - 1928)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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