• I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  3.1 · 37 votes · 163 reads

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• I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.5 · 58 votes · 148 reads

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• I quote others in order to better express myself.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  5.0 · 9 votes · 114 reads

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

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.1 · 45 votes · 126 reads

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• I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

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  Clifton Fadiman

  WriterAmerican1904 · 20th century

  3.3 · 10 votes · 34 reads

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• It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.1 · 29 votes · 89 reads

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• Life itself is a quotation.

  

  Jorge Luis Borges

  WriterArgentinian1899 · 19th century

  4.2 · 49 votes · 66 reads

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• Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.3 · 31 votes · 166 reads

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• Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  3.1 · 7 votes · 139 reads

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• 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.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.2 · 27 votes · 158 reads

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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.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  5.0 · 23 votes · 2 reads

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• One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

  

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  EducatorAmerican1799 · 18th century

  4.7 · 54 votes · 138 reads

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• Our best thoughts come from others.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.0 · 47 votes · 105 reads

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• Quotation: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.6 · 8 votes · 15 reads

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

  

  Walter Bagehot

  EconomistBritish1826 · 19th century

  4.1 · 30 votes · 126 reads

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• The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  4.2 · 33 votes · 61 reads

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

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.0 · 30 votes · 146 reads

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• The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.7 · 31 votes · 135 reads

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• The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.9 · 8 votes · 199 reads

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• Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism - victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The cour

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  3.5 · 27 votes · 143 reads

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• When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

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  James Baldwin

  WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century

  4.7 · 7 votes · 130 reads

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• When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.6 · 45 votes · 95 reads

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• Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who h

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  3.1 · 17 votes · 122 reads

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