The surest way to make a monkey out of a man is to quote him.
- Robert Benchly
Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
- Ambrose Bierce
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be
welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the
intrusion.
- Robert Chapman
It is a good thing for an educated man to read a book of
quotations.
- Winston Churchill
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are
perpetuated by quotations.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's
opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think we must..quote whenever we feel that the allusion is
interesting or helpful or amusing.
- Clifton Fadiman
Be careful with quotations, you can damn anything.
- Andre Malraux
I quote others only in order to better express myself.
- Michel De Montaigne
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
- Simeon Strunsky
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's
opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
- Oscar Wilde