(70 quotes found)
“A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.”
Brendan Francis
“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
“He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors”
Rudyard Kipling
“Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said”
Jean Rostand
“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations”
Ashleigh Brilliant
“The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant”
Karl Kraus
“Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.”
Guy deBord
“I have not always in my dealings with General de Gaulle found quotations from Trafalgar and Waterloo necessarily productive, and he has been very tactful about the Battle of Hastings.”
Harold Wilson
“After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.”
Henry Louis Mencken
