I always have a quotation for everything – it saves original thinking.

—Dorothy Sayers

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

—Somerset Maugham

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.                                                   —Marlene Dietrich

I hate quotations.                                          —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

—George Santayana

One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.

—Diogenes

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

—Miguel de Saavedra Cervantes

I quote others only the better to express myself.

—Michel de Montaigne

The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is.          —Mary Pettibone Poole

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

—Joseph Roux

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

—George Bernard Shaw

Quote me as saying I was misquoted.                      —Groucho Marx

A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.

—Talmud

A witty saying proves nothing.                                              —Voltaire

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

 —Robert Burns

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) 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