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.
I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love.
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Life itself is a quotation.
To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.