Quotes About Quoting Too Much

#1. There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.

Alain De Botton

#2. We ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse. (quoting Joel Salatin)

Michael Pollan

#3. And proceeding to follow the example of the devil in quoting Scripture for his own ends I added: She looketh to the ways of her household ... .

Agatha Christie

#4. Speaking one's mind once is more honorable than quoting a thousand men.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#5. Quoting an experienced school counselor: "You can't change a bully into a flower child, but you can change him into a knight.

Leonard Sax

#6. My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book, - it is a plaything.

Thomas Love Peacock

#7. I really want to be all serious and nod my head at that, but I think you just attempted to drop knowledge by quoting a movie in which David Bowie wears tights.

Scarlett Cole

#8. I skim through our notebook, thick with words, and then through our Facebook messages - so many now - and then I write a new one, quoting Virginia Woolf: Let us wander whirling to the gilt chairs. ... Are we not acceptable, moon? Are we not lovely sitting together here ... ?

Jennifer Niven

#9. I'm kind of quoting Thurston [Moore] and Kim [Gordon] in saying that about not being great with addicts, because they are the ones who said it to me.

Michael Stipe

#10. When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with imitating him and quoting him and speaking of him. But only in suffering will we know Jesus.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#11. Okay, Dolly Brooke killed her because she was going to marry a quote nigger unquote, and how do we prove it?'
He frowned. 'I have told you not to use that word in my hearing.'
'I was merely quoting. It isn't - '
'Shut up. I mean the word 'unquote' and you know it.

Rex Stout

#12. We have been lost for so long,' " she said, still quoting from that scene. She looked past him at the boy. The boy was staring at the gun in his hands. He was nodding, seemingly to himself. " 'We long only for the world we were born into.'

Emily St. John Mandel

#13. [Agatha Christie] is fond of quoting the witty wife who once said, 'an archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Christie's husband, Max Mallowan, was an archaeologist.

Nigel Dennis

#14. Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#15. Gratitude", he said, quoting Stalin, "is a dog's disease.

Robert Harris

#16. It was easy enough to invent theological-sounding passages, provided you used the right language. Most people presumed you were quoting something too obscure for them to recognise.

Alex Scarrow

#17. The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.

Larry Wall

#18. Lady Catherine quoting Lizzie Bennet:
She had the impudence to reply that, whilst these would be heavy misfortunes, your wife must have such extraordinary sources of happiness necessarily attached to her situation, that she could, upon the whole, have no cause to repine.

Janet Aylmer

#19. If you aren't a living example of 'the devil quoting scripture.'

Judith McNaught

#20. I know the Bible pretty well. I'm not one of those guys who can immediately start quoting every book, but usually I know where to look to find certain themes.

John Darnielle

#21. Why am I quoting myself?

Aarti Patel

#22. I'm quoting Margaret Thatcher. I quote her frequently.

Carly Fiorina

#23. Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal

Pablo Picasso

#24. Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!

Jeanette Winterson

#25. I love it when you talk clean to me, quoting training manuals like sonnets.

Amanda Hocking

#26. Leadership is a journey, not a destination. It is a marathon, not a sprint. It is a process, not an outcome. (quoting John Donahoe)

Bill George

#27. I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys.
No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#28. Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#29. I hope you'll understand that I am not quoting those great words lightly. I do mean it. Knowledge sets us free, art sets us free. A great library is freedom.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#30. Poor white trash quoting de Maistre and Carlyle and fancying themselves elite while they scrabbled to survive in a world where they were outstripped economically by the Chinese and intellectually by their own phones.

Ken MacLeod

#31. The head has no answers, and the heart has no questions, Jack would say.
Quoting his teacher and good friend Jack Kakakaway

Richard Wagamese

#32. Stay gold Ponyboy. Stay gold.

--Johnny quoting Robert Frost

S.E. Hinton