Definition of Quotation

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Quotation

The act of quoting or citing.

That which is quoted or cited; a part of a book or writing named, repeated, or adduced as evidence or illustration.

The naming or publishing of the current price of stocks, bonds, or any commodity; also the price named.

Quota; share.

A piece of hollow type metal, lower than type, and measuring two or more pica ems in length and breadth, used in the blank spaces at the beginning and end of chapters, etc.

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Quotation Quotations

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

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

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
James A. Baldwin

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

Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges

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

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

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

Quotation Translations

quotation in Dutch is aanhaling, citaat
quotation in French is citation, cote
quotation in Italian is citazione, valore corrente
quotation in Norwegian is notering, sitat
quotation in Spanish is cita
quotation in Swedish is citat, anbud (pris)

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