4.
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
Carolyn Heilbrun
6.
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism
Susan Sontag
9.
Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.
John Wyndham
10.
You can always find an evolutionary quotation for anything. But the question is whether it's functional, which is not the same as being evolutionary.
Daniel Kahneman
13.
A book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book, — it is a plaything.
Thomas Love Peacock
15.
I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses
Bill Walsh
16.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Bierce
18.
Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.
Mason Cooley
20.
The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.
Maria Edgeworth
22.
The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.
Giuseppe Mazzini
25.
Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.
Samuel Johnson
27.
The greatest tragedy for a good quotation is to be anonymous; and for the bad one, is to be known and famous!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
28.
One thing that drives me nuts... well, let me ask you, when writers write do they not use quotation marks anymore?
John Grisham
30.
I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a word like "goeth"?
Gary Saul Morson
32.
It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation.
Robert Benchley
33.
There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.
James Boswell
34.
A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.
Gary Saul Morson
35.
I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.
Loretta Young
36.
Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.
Jonathan Swift
37.
Oh, I don't read. I skulk about in search of quotations that might make me appear educated.
Tasha Alexander
38.
I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: "However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation correctly, an earlier source will be pointed out to you."
Nigel Rees
39.
We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves.
Gary Saul Morson