It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

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

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

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writes in the read more

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writes in the world.

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather read more

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.

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

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

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

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

I quote others only in order the better to express myself. •Michel De Montaigne Certain brief sentences read more

I quote others only in order the better to express myself. •Michel De Montaigne Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. •Jean Rostand I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation read more

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