“Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.”
“That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.”
“After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.”
“Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.”
“When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.”
“Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.”
“Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.”
“Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.”
“I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.”
“The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.”
“There are two kinds of marriages -- where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.”
“Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.”
“In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.”
“One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats --and one always secretes too much jelly.”
“Ah, yes, I wrote the ''Purple Cow'' -- I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you, anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it.”
“The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.”
“In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.”
“A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.”
“Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.”
“Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.”
“I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.”
“Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.”
“The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air.”
“He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.”
“Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.”
“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.”
“He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.”
“I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose, said Tan-Chun. If I told you how it went on, I should end up by contradicting myself!”
“Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.”
“Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.”