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

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Rudyard Kipling

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
Max Beerbohm

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
Robert Burns

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

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
George Eliot

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Bob Dylan

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

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.
Maurice Chevalier

Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks.
Lawrence Halprin

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Hesketh Pearson

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

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.
Virginia Woolf

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
Guy Debord

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
Walter Benjamin

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.
Isaac Disraeli

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

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.
Susan Sontag