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Quotations by Subject: Quotations
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Showing quotations 31 to 54 of 54 quotations in our collections

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), De Profundis, 1905
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?: Philip G. Hamerton, "The Intellectual Life"
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.: Pierre Bayle (1647 - 1706), Dictionairre Historique et Critique
Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Journal (May 1849)
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims (Quotation and Originality)
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.: Robert Chapman
A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.: Robert M. Hamilton
He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.: Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), as quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson (May 8th, 1781)
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.: Simeon Strunsky (1879 - 1948), No Mean City (1944)
I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.': Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), quoted in Rudolf Flesch, ed., "The New Book of Unusual Quotations" (NY: Harper & Row, 1966), p. 311
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Roving Commission: My Early Life, 1930, Chapter 9
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
A witty saying proves nothing.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.: William Feather (1908 - 1976)
I didn't really say everything I said.: Yogi Berra (1925 - )

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