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

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Brendan Francis

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
Letitia Landon

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson

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

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

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
Janet Malcolm

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
Dorothy L. Sayers

I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.
Bill Walsh

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.
Evelyn Waugh

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.
Arthur Miller

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

Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Oscar Wilde

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

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

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Isaac D'Israeli

To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.
Charles Edward Montague

We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.
Michael Steele