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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.

There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable.

Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or stolen authority.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

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

I surround myself with inspirational quotations.

I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses

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.

Quotations calcify into clichés.

Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining resource.

I've compiled a book from the Internet. It's a book of quotations attributed to the wrong people.

I have never found a better way to enhance the communications process than by reinforcing the points or concepts I wish to make with timely, memorable quotations.

[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.

If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.

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

Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

the majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore.

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

With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.

I realized that my kisses with Dane had become a form of punctuation, the quotations or the hasty dash at the end of a conversation

I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.

Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and their fascinating history.

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A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes.

In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations.

The greatest tragedy for a good quotation is to be anonymous; and for the bad one, is to be known and famous!

To read quotations is to live in a planet with multiple suns!

A wide range of quotations are necessary for the repertoire of a well-rounded speaker. Quotations are able to illustrate in a few words what is difficult to explain in many.

Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.

Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw.

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."

A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.

Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.

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

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

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

It is a rich storehouse for those who love quotations. It is as full of fine bon mots as a Christmas pudding is full of plums.

Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.

I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot - we inhale from our 'Bartlett's.'

There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.

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

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

Quotations--always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!

Quotation lovers love rare words.

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

Quotations cause all kinds of trouble.