“Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations”
Orson Welles
“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”
“The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.”
John Milton
“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.”
Winston Churchill
“I hate quotations.”
“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.”
