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.
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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.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
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 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.
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.
A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
