Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
- Oscar WildeA facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
- Dorothy L. SayersLife itself is a quotation.
- Jorge Luis BorgesI caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.
- Bill WalshQuotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
- Ambrose BierceThe wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
- Benjamin DisraeliEvery quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
- Samuel JohnsonA quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
- Aaron KildowA fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
- Adam DennisA quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
- Adolfo GarciaIt is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman`s brain!
- Akira SasakiAn apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
- Allyson DonnellyQuotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
- Oscar WildeImmortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
- Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
- Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat`s the use of a good quotation if you can`t change it?
- Doctor WhoA fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
- Joseph Roux