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He wrapped himself in quotations
Rudyard Kipling
A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
The Talmud
The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.
John Morley
Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote, and think they grow immortal as they quote.
Edward Young
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
H. L. Mencken
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw
Most anthologists of quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters; first picking the best ones and winding up by eating everything.
Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort,
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
Tom Stoppard
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
Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser and more intelligent than his readers.
W. H. Auden
He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen
Samuel Johnson
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
Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
Samuel Goldwyn
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
