(70 quotes found)
“Books of quotations are an elemental model of how culture is perpetuated, the wisdom of the trite passed on to posterity, to be added to, edited, and modified by subsequent generations.”
Robert Andrews
“Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning, if you have enough of them.”
James Murray
“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
Oscar Wilde
“Be careful, - with quotations you can damn anything”
Andre Malraux
“A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.”
Thomas Love Peacock
“The difference between my quotations and those of the next man is that I leave out the inverted commas.”
George Moore
“Most anthologists... of quotations are like those who eat cherries... first picking the best ones and winding up by eating everything.”
Chamfort
“The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.”
Susan Sontag
“One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats --and one always secretes too much jelly.”
Virginia Woolf
“Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations”
Orson Welles
