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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

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ZAHA HADID It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste...
SUSAN SONTAG I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I hate quotations.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverenc...
LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of revere...
LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine; she read all such works as heroines...
JANE AUSTEN There is nothing but quotations left for us. Our language is a system of quotations.
JORGE LUIS BORGES After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
H. L. MENCKEN After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
MONTESQUIEU Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. I hate quotations. Tell me what...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.
LORETTA YOUNG The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations fr...
KARL KRAUS The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations fr...
KARL KRAUS Collecting quotations is an insidious, even embarrassing habit, like ragpicking or hoarding rocks or...
ROBERT BYRNE I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book ...
EZRA TAFT BENSON I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, am...
ROBERT BURNS Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
ANDRE MALRAUX Be careful, - with quotations you can damn anything
ANDRE MALRAUX Be careful--with quotations, you can damn anything.
ANDRé MALRAUX Quotations are word innovations.
WRITER FOX I was Chairman Mao's dog. What he said to bite, I bit.
JIANG QING It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations...
MAURICE CHEVALIER The peace of mind people get by prayers, i get it by means of quotations!
SUPERNA BATHEJA Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
HESKETH PEARSON When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything th...
JUNG CHANG I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Tokyo was a place you could quite happily exist alone and be self-contained. It seemed to promise th...
OLIVIA SUDJIC He wrapped himself in quotations
RUDYARD KIPLING Pretentious quotations [are] the surest road to tedium.
HENRY WATSON FOWLER I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul
MAX BEERBOHM I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
MAX BEERBOHM That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
AMANDA CROSS That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
AMANDA CROSS The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
AMANDA CROSS A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
ROBERT M. HAMILTON I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound -...
DOROTHY PARKER I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound;...
DOROTHY PARKER I like to travel on the road where quotations are its signposts.
VIKRANT PARSAI My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. -Ashleigh Brilliant.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Most anthologists... of quotations are like those who eat cherries... first picking the best ones an...
CHAMFORT Barry White seemed so filled with self-parody at first that it was easy to dismiss him. But it is be...
JON LANDAU The difference between my quotations and those of the next man is that I leave out the inverted comm...
GEORGE MOORE A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything.
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.
C. E. MONTAGUE It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The worst thing about proverbs and quotations is that the fools make no use of them.
VIKRANT PARSAI Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Quotations in conversation are torches in darkness.
VIKRANT PARSAI The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
CAROLYN GOLD HEILBRUN It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Most anthologists of quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters; first picking the best o...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
GUY DEBORD I have not always in my dealings with General de Gaulle found quotations from Trafalgar and Waterloo...
HAROLD WILSON Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
ORSON WELLES Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
ORSON WELLES Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations
ORSON WELLES The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.
ISAAC D'ISRAELI Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses
ISAAC DISRAELI A book of quotations is one which is filled with God’s wisdom for a happy life.
VIKRANT PARSAI Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in ...
JEAN GENET The study of great quotations is worth more than a college education.
VIKRANT PARSAI At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotati...
OSCAR WILDE Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.
JOHN WYNDHAM They are a brilliant device for shape-shifting as we can slip into the skin of authors from other ti...
JEN CAMPBELL The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages, may be preserved through quotations
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A person can understand almost everything deeply through quotations.
VIKRANT PARSAI It's going to be self-contained, have hot water, the works.
REV. TERRY PEELE Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They f...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning, if you have enough of them.
JAMES MURRAY He who knows quotations can overcome any type of difficulty in life.
VIKRANT PARSAI Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths that give life perspective and meaning. W...
CHRISWELL FREEMAN Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors a...
RICHARD STALLMAN The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors a...
RICHARD STALLMAN Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'.
JOHN MCCAIN I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with mu...
MARLENE DIETRICH I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with mu...
MARLENE DIETRICH In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
GEORGE ELIOT Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism
SUSAN SONTAG Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'...
JOHN MCCAIN Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.
IHAB HASSAN Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.
IHAB HASSAN He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
RUDYARD KIPLING He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
RUDYARD KIPLING He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors
RUDYARD KIPLING Quotations are sometimes valuable pearls, but original thoughts can be priceless treasure.
UNKNOWN I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.
JOHN GREEN Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his co...
WALTER BENJAMIN Tell that to every publisher who's done a dictionary of quotations. They can stand by themselves bec...
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