Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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

I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.

We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

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.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Life itself is a quotation.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.