(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
(Robert Benchley)
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
(Winston Churchill)
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
(Orson Welles)
The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
(Amanda Cross)
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
(Edward Young)
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
(Rudyard Kipling)
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, “Verify your quotations. ”
(Winston Churchill)
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.
(Hesketh Pearson)
To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.
(Bernard Edmonds quotes)
A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.
(Anthony Holden)