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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 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
Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him.
Mark Twain1835–1910
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston Churchill1874–1965My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 9 (Education At Bangalore).
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
Dorothy L. Sayers1893–1957Often credited to Peter Wimsey
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965
Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
Groucho Marx1890–1977
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound⁠—if I can remember any of the damn things.
Dorothy Parker1893–1967“The Little Hours” in Here Lies (1939)
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Aristotle384–322 BC
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Simeon Strunsky1879–1948
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
IDIsaac D'Israeli1766–1848Often credited to Benjamin Disraeli
Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said.
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.
IDIsaac D'Israeli1766–1848Curiosities of Literature (1791–1834)
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
PHPhilip Hamerton1834–1894