“The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.”
Susan Sontag
“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”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation”
“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.”
Winston Churchill
“Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.”
“I hate quotations.”
