Dorothy L. Sayers on quotations

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

To forbid the making of pictures about God would be to forbid thinking about God at all, for man is so made that he has no way to think except in pictures.

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

Oscar Wilde1854–1900De Profundis (1897)

A witty saying proves nothing.

Voltaire1694–1778Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers (1767): Deuxième Entretien

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882May 1849