QUOTATION

Related Subjects: Apothegms, Borrowing, Example, Platitude, Proverbs, Wisdom

1. That should be a warning to you never again to fall into the error of the would-be scholar—namely, quote second-hand.—BULWER-LYTTON, My Novel
   

2. Appropriate things are meant to be appropriated.—SAMUEL BUTLER
   

3. With just enough of learning to misquote.—BYRON, English Bards & Scotch Reviewers
   

4. Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory.—DA VINCI
   

5. In literature quotation is good only when the writer whom I follow goes my way, and, being better mounted than I, gives me a cast.—EMERSON, Quotation and Originality
   

6. Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of filial reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.—LOUISE GUINEY
   

7. If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.—HIPPOCRATES, Precepts
   

8. Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life
   

9. Though old the thought and oft exprest,
   'Tis his at last who says it best.—LOWELL, For an Autograph
   

10. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.—ALEXANDER SMITH, Dreamthorp
    

11. Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.—SWIFT
    

12. Some for renown, on scraps of learning, dote,
    And think they grow immortal as they quote.—EDWARD YOUNG, Love of Fame