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

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

I often quote myself - it adds spice to my conversation.

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you can never know if they are genuine.

I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, "Verify your quotations."

Life itself is a quotation.

Quotation: something that somebody said that seemed to make sense at the time.

A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

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

My favourite quotation is eight pounds ten for a second-hand suit.

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. [on Shakespeare]

Years ago my mother used to say to me... 'In this world, Elwood, you must be Oh-so-smart, or Oh-so-pleasant.' Well, for years I was smart — I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.

A quotation is a signature composed of words; expressing the thoughts of the author.

"The problem with quotations on Twitter is their authenticity is never questioned" Sir Winston Churchill

It is very dangerous ever to say that a particular person coined a phrase or that it came about in a definite way. There is almost always an example of an earlier use. The furthest it is safe to go is to say that a certain person has popularised the phrase at a certain time.