Quotes about 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.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jesus did not dispute [Satan] . . . our Lord quoted Scripture, and that's one thing the devil can't stand! The Scripture defeats him every time.
- Billy Graham
Classical quotation is a parole of literary men all over the world.
- Samuel Johnson
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.
- Mark Twain
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
- Samuel Johnson
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
- AA Milne
Literality in satire is the condemnation by quotation.
- Elias Canetti
Bible verses remain true, even if the devil quotes them.
- Richard Wurmbrand
[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
- AA Milne
I always have a quotation for everything--it saves original thinking.
- Dorothy Sayers
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than in the poem.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson