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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
Andre Maurois
Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
Janet Malcolm
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
Alexander Smith
Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.
Saul Alinsky
Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.
William R. Alger
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
Samuel Johnson
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism
Susan Sontag
It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.
Elias Canetti
Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together speeches are paying attention only to the soundbite, not to the text as a whole, not realizing that all great soundbites happen by accident, which is to say, all great soundbites are yielded up inevitably, as part of the natural expression of the text. They are part of the tapestry, they aren't a little flower somebody sewed on.
Peggy Noonan
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Isaac Disraeli
I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.'
Sir Winston Churchill, quoted in
Collecting quotations is an insidious, even embarrassing habit, like ragpicking or hoarding rocks or trying on other people's laundry. I got into it originally while trying to break an addiction to candy. I kicked candy and now seem to be stuck with quotations, which are attacking my brain instead of my teeth.
Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Alfred North Whitehead
There are two kinds of marriages -- where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.
Clifford Odets
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
Guy Debord
