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

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

Virginia Woolf

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Guy Debord

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

Winston Churchill

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

Maurice Chevalier

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Loretta Young

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

Orson Welles

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

Susan Sontag

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Hesketh Pearson

My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation.

Nigel Rees

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

Robert Burns

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

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

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

Walter Benjamin

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

Max Beerbohm

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

William Feather

They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.

Aaron Koblin

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

George Eliot

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

Barbara Pym

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

Thomas Love Peacock

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

Rudyard Kipling

I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book of Mormon.

Ezra Taft Benson

Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks.

Lawrence Halprin

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

Abraham Lincoln