Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.

Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writes in the read more

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writes in the world.

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the read more

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.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. •George Bernard Shaw It is better to read more

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. •George Bernard Shaw It is better to be quotable than to be honest. •Tom Stoppard Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. •Orson Welles Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.

Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation read more

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.