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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.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. •George Bernard Shaw It is better to read more
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. •George Bernard Shaw It is better to be quotable than to be honest. •Tom Stoppard Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. •Orson Welles Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
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.
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.
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily read more
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
