Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than oneself.
Marlene Dietrich
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Aldous Huxley
In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.
Evelyn Waugh
The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.
John Jay Chapman
Reading any collection of a man's quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won't go away hungry, but it's not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.
Christopher Buckley
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw
Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
Groucho Marx
Quotations from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.
Louise Guiney
Classical quotation is a parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson
I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damned things.
Dorothy Parker