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I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Hesketh Pearson

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

Thomas Love Peacock

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Rudyard Kipling

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks.

Lawrence Halprin

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

William Feather

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.