I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

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.

Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.

Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.

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.

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the read more

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

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.

Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.