“The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
William Somerset Maugham
“Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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”
“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
“Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said”
Jean Rostand
“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
Oscar Wilde
“In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.”
George Eliot
