“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
Oscar Wilde
“A memorable quote requires a shake of semantic shenanigans and a pinch of poetic pulchritude.”
Rain Bojangles
“You're just as witty as you feel, just as witty as you feel inside.”
“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”
“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
“The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
William Somerset Maugham