Quotations on Quotation 11 Quotes Found Displaying 1 through 11
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. - Ambrose Bierce (Keywords: Act, Quotation, Words) A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. - Brendan Francis (Keywords: Authority, Quotation, Speech) Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. - Samuel Johnson (Keywords: Men, Literary, Quotation, World) She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. - W. Somerset Maugham (Keywords: Pretty, Quotation, Wit) In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera. - Arthur Miller (Keywords: Quotation, Theater) To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation. - Charles Edward Montague (Keywords: Quotation, Spring) A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. - Joseph Roux (Keywords: Fool, Man, Quotation, Wit) I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking. - Dorothy L. Sayers (Keywords: Quotation, Thinking) It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain! - Anna Garlin Spencer (Keywords: Error, Forget, Man, Old, Quotation, Woman) In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. - Evelyn Waugh (Keywords: Dying, Quotation, Vice, World) Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. - Oscar Wilde (Keywords: Quotation, Wit)
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