đź’¬ SenQuotes.com

Quotations Quotes

1.
Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.
Willard Van Orman Quine

Authors on Quotations Quotes: Susan Sontag Gary Saul Morson Willis Regier Isaac D'Israeli John Wyndham James Boswell Blake Mycoskie Ernie J Zelinski Loretta Young Tasha Alexander Jonathan Swift Nigel Rees Bill Walsh Zora Neale Hurston Daniel Kahneman Ralph Waldo Emerson Martin Routh Ambrose Bierce Giuseppe Mazzini Carolyn Heilbrun Samuel Johnson Mason Cooley Willard Van Orman Quine James Joyce Dorothy Richardson Thomas Love Peacock Mehmet Murat Ildan William Safire John Grisham Maria Edgeworth Charles Buxton Robert Benchley Michel de Montaigne
2.
One may quote till one compiles.
Isaac D'Israeli

3.
Proverbs are potted wisdom.
Charles Buxton

4.
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

6.
Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them.
Dorothy Richardson

7.
Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.
John Wyndham

8.
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

9.
Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'
William Safire

10.
I quote others in order to better express myself.
Michel de Montaigne

11.
I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses
Bill Walsh

12.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Bierce

13.
Always verify quotations!
Martin Routh

14.
Quotation confesses inferiority.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

15.
A book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book, — it is a plaything.
Thomas Love Peacock

16.
I surround myself with inspirational quotations.
Blake Mycoskie

17.
Quotations calcify into clichés.
Willis Regier

18.
Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.
Mason Cooley

19.
[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.
Zora Neale Hurston

20.
The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.
Maria Edgeworth

21.
It isn't much of a book of quotations if I am not in it.
Ernie J Zelinski

22.
It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation.
Robert Benchley

23.
There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.
James Boswell

24.
A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.
Gary Saul Morson

25.
I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.
Loretta Young

26.
Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.
Jonathan Swift

27.
Oh, I don't read. I skulk about in search of quotations that might make me appear educated.
Tasha Alexander

28.
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

29.
We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves.
Gary Saul Morson

30.
My skull is crammed with quotations.
Susan Sontag

31.
The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.
Giuseppe Mazzini

32.
Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.
Isaac D'Israeli

33.
We are ruled by quotations.
Susan Sontag

34.
Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.
Samuel Johnson

35.
Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!
James Joyce

36.
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

37.
One thing that drives me nuts... well, let me ask you, when writers write do they not use quotation marks anymore?
John Grisham

38.
Quotation lovers love rare words.
Willis Regier

39.
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