(70 quotes found)
“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
“Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author”
Samuel Johnson
“The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
William Somerset Maugham
“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
“I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.”
Dorothy Parker
“When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it”
Anatole France
“The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.”
Amanda Cross
“I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.”
Robert Burns
“In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusions on the wall”
Bob Dylan
“In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.”
Andre Maurois
