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Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

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

I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

We are going to solicit quotations from different collectors, because we haven't done it for a while. We were approached by the township to see if we were willing to go out and take a look. That's what the (school) board agreed to do.

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.

I surround myself with inspirational quotations.

Most anthologists... of quotations are like those who eat cherries... first picking the best ones and winding up by eating everything.

Three market participants are down at the moment. As a result they are not able to generate quotations over our network. The market is open and operating otherwise.

Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them.

You can always find an evolutionary quotation for anything. But the question is whether it's functional, which is not the same as being evolutionary.

Books of quotations are an elemental model of how culture is perpetuated, the wisdom of the trite passed on to posterity, to be added to, edited, and modified by subsequent generations.

Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning, if you have enough of them.

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted . . . . Some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.

I have not always in my dealings with General de Gaulle found quotations from Trafalgar and Waterloo necessarily productive, and he has been very tactful about the Battle of Hastings.

There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.

Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

One may quote till one compiles.

The greater part of our writers, . . . have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.

I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book of Mormon.

That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

You know what my favourite quotation is?...It's from Chaucer... Criseyde says it, "I am myne owene woman, wel at ese.

The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.

I quote others in order to better express myself.

Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.

I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation correctly, an earlier source will be pointed out to you.

Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!

The difference between my quotations and those of the next man is that I leave out the inverted commas.

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

Oh, I don't read. I skulk about in search of quotations that might make me appear educated.

It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation.

Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'

Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation

[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages, may be preserved through quotations

Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.

Quotation confesses inferiority.

Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.