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| Author | Quote | E-Mail this quote |
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| Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. | |
| Cary Grant | I improve on misquotation. | |
| George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) | I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. | |
| Hesketh Pearson | Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. | |
| John Alejandro King a.k.a. The Covert Comic | If an anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances, the most illuminating will tend to be of the Mütter variety. | |
| Philip G. Hamerton | Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author? - ( "The Intellectual Life") | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) | I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. | |
| Robert M. Hamilton | A book of quotations . . . can never be complete. | |
| Rudyard Kipling | He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. | |
| Simeon Strunsky | Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. | |
| Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) | It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. |
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