Famous Quotes
73 Quotations with Quotation.
- 1. Ralph Waldo Emerson: I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
- 2. Ambrose Bierce: Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
- 3. Cary Grant: I improve on misquotation.
- 4. Oscar Wilde: Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their ...
- 5. Hesketh Pearson: Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
- 6. Robert M. Hamilton: A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
- 7. W. Somerset Maugham: She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
- 8. Dorothy Parker: I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful f ...
- 9. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a vers ...
- 10. Amanda Cross: The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
- 11. Ambrose Bierce: QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words e ...
- 12. James Fallows: The most annoying trait of Right-Wing Outlaws in general is a lazy incuriosity a ...
- 13. Lord Peter Wimsey: A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
- 14. Robert Chapman: A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for som ...
- 15. Louise Guiney: Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors ar ...
- 16. Robert W. Shaunon: Perhaps the reader may ask, of what consequence is it whether the author's exact ...
- 17. Jorge Luis Borges: Life itself is a quotation.
- 18. C. E. Montague: To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.
- 19. Sir Winston Churchill: It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's ...
- 20. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to ...