Quotation From Quotes

#1. A clergyman generally dislikes to be met in argument by any scriptural quotation; he feels as affronted as a doctor does, when recommended by an old woman to take some favourite dose,

Anthony Trollope

#2. You know what my favourite quotation is? ... It's from Chaucer ... Criseyde says it, I am myne owene woman, wel at ese.

Mary McCarthy

#3. Her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible, - or from one of our elder poets, - in a paragraph of to-day's newspaper.

George Eliot

#4. To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason.

Robertson Davies

#5. A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation.

Jonathan Swift

#6. But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.

Evelyn Waugh

#7. Opening the book is a quotation from the National Conference of Catholic Bishops that sums up the Prager-Telushkin view: It was Judaism that brought the concept of a God-given universal moral law into the world ... The Jew carries the burden of God in history [and] for this has never been forgiven.

George Gilder

#8. In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

Evelyn Waugh

#9. Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.

Paul Eldridge

#10. a quotation from the Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset as an epigraph for Stoner: "A hero is one who wants to be himself." In

John Williams

#11. quotation from Einstein: 'The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.' I would suggest to Dr. Chauncy that in combination, the two qualities are even more alarming.

Douglas Preston

#12. It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation.

Robert Benchley

#13. Denial is commonly found among persons with dissociative disorders. My favorite quotation from such a client is, "We are not multiple, we made it all up." I have heard this from several different clients. When I hear it, I politely inquire, "And who is we?

Alison Miller

#14. Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the last quotation marks is that most so-called theory is only a collection of examples from master practice.

Bent Larsen

#15. The origin of the name is an enigmatic quotation from James Joyce: "Three quarks for Muster Mark!

Stephen Hawking

#16. Chumaka ended with a quotation from a play that Jiro favored. " 'Small acts partner small houses and small minds'.

Raymond E. Feist

#17. When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.

George Steiner

#18. The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.

Richard P. Feynman

#19. To say that anything was a quotation was an excellent method, in Eleanor's eyes, for withdrawing it from discussion,

Saki

#20. To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#21. 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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!

Anna Garlin Spencer

#23. I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning.

Masha Tupitsyn

#24. If the Truth is already clear, what is the use of meditation?' " " 'And if the Truth is hidden?' " Toranaga said. " 'It's already clear,' " Hiro-matsu answered correctly. The quotation was from the ancient Tantric Buddhist teacher, Saraha.

James Clavell

#25. The heart of the other quotation, from Lincoln, was: "If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, these shops might as well be closed to any other business. I do the very best I know how, and I mean to keep doing so to the end.

William Manchester

#26. My impression of the American people can be summarized by a quotation from Benjamin Franklin, "Those things that hurt instruct!" I realised that people in this part of the world meet their problems head on. They attempt to get out of them rather than suffer them.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#27. I have been a stranger in a strange land, Halleck quoted. Paul stared at him, recognizing the quotation from the O.C. Bible, wondering: Does Gurney, too, wish an end to devious plots?

Frank Herbert