Quotes in Quotations
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.