Quotation Quotes

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

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

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.

To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Life itself is a quotation.

We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner.

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.

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

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page.