n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
I quote others in order to better express myself.
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
Enjoy every ounce of your life, get high and be sincere to anybody that comes around you.
Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
Ma la virilit? si è tutta smammolata in coccolette; il coraggio svaporato in complimenti, e gli uomini sono diventati tutti lingua, come dei pappagalli ammaestrati. Oggi è più valente di un Ercole chi sa meglio mentire e spergiurare. Non posso diventare uomo di mia volont? , e allora morirò donna per disperazione.
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.
Carrot started to clap.It wasn't the clap used by middlings to encourage underlings to applaud overlings. It had genuine enthusiasm behind it which was, somehow, worse.
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.
Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.
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.
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism
It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.
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