Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors.
Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and their fascinating history.
The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.
Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door.
Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks. ”'
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.
There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.
Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may be one of three things either what is called Plagiarism, or Imitation, or Coincidence.
Life itself is a quotation.
A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice.
Great quotation collections glean the millennia, distill essences, and battle for bragging rights about who’s bigger, who’s smarter, who’s best. Who-knows-who-said-what has a market, a history, and a hall of fame.
To laugh often and much. . . this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.
The greatest tragedy for a good quotation is to be anonymous; and for the bad one, is to be known and famous!
Quotation confesses inferiority.
Quotation brings to many people one of the intensest joys of living.
It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation.