Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose, said Tan-Chun. If I told you how it went on, I should end up by contradicting myself!

A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.

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

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

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.

Quotations 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.

Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.

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

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.