Quotations Quotes

Anna Garlin Spencer: “It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain! ”

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Lama Surya Das: “Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of things.”

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Joseph Roux: “A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”

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W. Somerset Maugham: “She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.”

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Yossi Klein Halevi: “But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your own religious insights and ignore or reinterpret those that undermine your certainties. Selective quoting isn't just legitimate, but essential: Religions evolve through shifts in selective quoting.”

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Talmud: “A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. Journals, 1843”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.”

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Louise Guiney: “Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.”

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Marlene Dietrich: “I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”

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George Bernard Shaw: “I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.”

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Christopher Buckley: “Reading any collection of a man's quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won't go away hungry, but it's not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.”

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W. Somerset Maugham: “The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.”

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Groucho Marx: “Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.”

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Sophocles: “A short saying often contains much wisdom.”

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Mary Pettibone Poole: “The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is.”

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George Santayana: “Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.”

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Winston Churchill: “It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”

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Michel de Montaigne: “I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”

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

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Virginia Woolf: “When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet. . . indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”

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Marlene Dietrich: “I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than oneself.”