Quotations Quotes

He wrapped himself in quotations - As a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Rudyard Kipling

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

Oscar Wilde

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate quotations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

C. E. Montague

A book of quotations... can never be complete.

Robert M. Hamilton

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.

Marlene Dietrich

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well - Known quotations.

H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare

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 Parke

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Orson Welles

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Sir Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1930

People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.

Graham Greene, A Burnt - Out Case

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Hesketh Pearson

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Benjamin Disraeli