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| Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. | | Samuel Johnson | |
| 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 | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language | | Samuel Johnson | |
| He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen | | Samuel Johnson | |
| He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors | | Rudyard Kipling | |
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| In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusions on the wall | | Bob Dylan | |
| It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. | | Winston Churchill | |
| It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations. | | Maurice Chevalier | |
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| Pay attention and listen to the sayings of the wise; apply your heart to what I teach, for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart and have all of them ready on your lips | | Bible | |
| Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. | | Leo Rosten | |
| Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author | | Samuel Johnson | |
| The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceived who could see nothing more in a quotation than an extract | | Benjamin Disraeli | |
| The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages, may be preserved through quotations | | Benjamin Disraeli | |
| To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound | | Christian Nevell Bovee | |
| When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it | | Anatole France | |
| With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations | | Ashleigh Brilliant | |
