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Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism
Susan Sontag
5.
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
Carolyn Heilbrun
7.
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
10.
Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.
John Wyndham
11.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Bierce
14.
A book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book, — it is a plaything.
Thomas Love Peacock
16.
I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses
Bill Walsh
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
21.
Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.
Jonathan Swift
22.
Oh, I don't read. I skulk about in search of quotations that might make me appear educated.
Tasha Alexander
23.
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
24.
We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves.
Gary Saul Morson
26.
The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.
Giuseppe Mazzini
30.
Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.
Samuel Johnson
31.
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
32.
One thing that drives me nuts... well, let me ask you, when writers write do they not use quotation marks anymore?
John Grisham
34.
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
36.
It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation.
Robert Benchley
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There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.
James Boswell
38.
A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.
Gary Saul Morson
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I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.
Loretta Young