quotation Quotes and Quotations
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quotation Quotes and Quotations
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. Ambrose Bierce | top
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Life itself is a quotation. Jorge Luis Borges | top
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Winston Churchill | top
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. Isaac D'Israeli | top
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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. Marlene Dietrich | top
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. Benjamin Disraeli | top
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In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. George Eliot | top
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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 | top
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A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. Brendan Francis | top
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Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks. Lawrence Halprin | top
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He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. Rudyard Kipling | top
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An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence. Letitia Landon | top
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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. W. Somerset Maugham | top
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To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation. Charles Edward Montague | top
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A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything. Thomas Love Peacock | top
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Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely. Hesketh Pearson | top
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Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. Hesketh Pearson | top
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Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man. Barbara Pym | top
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A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. Joseph Roux | top
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The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. Susan Sontag | top
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We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process. Michael Steele | top
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In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. Evelyn Waugh | top
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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. Orson Welles | top
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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly. Virginia Woolf | top
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I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life. Loretta Young | top
