ON QUOTATIONS

ON QUOTATIONS

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
- Sir Winston Churchill


A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
- Dorothy L. Sayers


She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
- W. Somerset Maugham


He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
- Rudyard Kipling


Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,
And think they grow immortal as they quote.
- Edward Young


I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
- Seneca


The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
- Amanda Cross


Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned.
- Hesketh Pearson


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


The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
- Robert Benchley


There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
- Charles M. Schulz [Yeah, the bumper sticker is readable. – KKL]
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire