Famous Quotes

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book than in being the first author of that thought. Cardinal du Perron has been heard to say that the happy application of a verse of Virgil has deserved a talent.

There are two kinds of marriages where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

If with the literate I am Impelled to try an epigram I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.

QUOTATION n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

Ah yes I wrote the Purple Cow Im sorry now I wrote it! But I can tell you anyhow Ill kill you if you quote it.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

With just enough of learning to misquote.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.