Quotes about Quotations

“I improve on misquotation.”

“Life itself is a quotation.”

“Our best thoughts come from others.”

“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”

“It is better to be quotable than to be honest.”

“Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.”

“I quote others in order to better express myself.”

“One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.”

“Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.”

“To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.”

“The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”

“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.”

“Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.”

“The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.”

“The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.”

“I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.”

“A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.”

“A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.”

“A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything.”

“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”

“Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.”

“The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.”

“Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.”

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.”

“Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.”

“Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.”

“That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.”

“After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.”

“Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.”

“When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.”