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The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

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

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.

One may quote till one compiles.

Old words are reborn with new faces.

You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations. [Expressing his lack of confidence in reported regularities in the periodic classification of elements.]

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

You evidently do not suffer from "quotation-hunger" as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as I always want to know where a quotation comes from.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible." "Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations.

That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them.

An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.

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

Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal.

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.

I quote others in order to better express myself.

Here are more quotes about chemistry and famous quotations made by chemists relating to their science. There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.

Quotations are the gold mine of human mind, the silver pearls of the wisdom ocean, and the cool drops of the rain of intelligence.

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

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

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter.

To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.

I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to examine quotations, by whomsoever alleged.

Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words.

I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses

I was fascinated by quotations and lists. And then I noticed that other people were fascinated by quotations and lists: people as different as Borges and Walter Benjamin, Novalis and Godard.