Quotes about quotations
49 quotes from 37 people
Tom Stoppard1937–2025Interview with Janet Watts in The Guardian (21 March 1973)Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Jesting Pilate (1926), Part IV: AmericaHe wrapped himself in quotations—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936The Finest Story in the World (1893).A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Joseph Roux1834–1905Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866), Part 1, LXXIV
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The Rambler (1750–1752), No. 175 (19 November 1751)
Emma Goldman1869–1940Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), Preface
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XII: On old age, Line 11.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Letters and Social Aims (1876), Quotation and OriginalityNext to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Letters and Social Aims (1876), Quotation and OriginalityClassical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV (8 May 1781)Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965“1896”, p. 17
