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Maurice Chevalier

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

by Maurice Chevalier (Actor, French , born in 1888) keywords: always, furs, jewels, men, quotations, same, themselves, wit , women

Winston Churchill

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

by Winston Churchill (Statesman, English , born in 1874) keywords: books, good, man, quotations, read, thing , uneducated

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

by Guy Debord (Writer, French , born in 1931) keywords: beliefs, ignorance, periods, quotations , useful

Benjamin Disraeli

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

by Benjamin Disraeli (Statesman, British , born in 1804) topics: Wisdom keywords: ages, experience, perpetuated, quotations, wisdom , wise

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

by Bob Dylan (Musician, American , born in 1941) keywords: books, bus, conclusions, dime, draw, quotations, read, repeat, situations, stations, stores, talk , wall

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

by George Eliot (Author, British , born in 1819) keywords: ability, experience, had, his, into, maxims, petrified, practical, quotations, some , spite

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Poet, American , born in 1970) topics: Knowledge keywords: hate, know, quotations , tell

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.

by William Feather (Author, American , born in 1889) keywords: ages, experience, fables, folk, into, nation, perpetuity, preserved, proverbs, quotations, sayings, wisdom , wise

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

by Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (Author, American , born in 1926) keywords: another, insulting, point, quotations, use , words

Rudyard Kipling

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

by Rudyard Kipling (Writer, English , born in 1865) keywords: beggar, emperors, himself, purple, quotations, would , wrapped

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

by Karl Kraus (Writer, Austrian , born in 1874) keywords: fire, germans, kant, quotations, shells, them , trouble

Thomas Love Peacock

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

by Thomas Love Peacock (Author, English , born in 1785) keywords: book, furnishes, plaything , quotations

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

by Hesketh Pearson (Actor, English , born in 1887) keywords: misquoted, never, only , quotations

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

by Barbara Pym (Novelist, English , born in 1913) keywords: anyone, man, obscure, quite, quotations, read, really, see, those, very, well , were

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

by Susan Sontag (Author, American , born in 1933) keywords: incongruous, juxtaposition, quotations, surrealist , taste

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

by Orson Welles (Actor, American , born in 1915) keywords: now, order, quotations, recognize, shakespeare, sit , through

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

by Virginia Woolf (Author, British , born in 1970) keywords: always, down, jelly, much, quotations, slip, throats, too , which

I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.

by Loretta Young (Actor, American , born in 1913) keywords: life, lived, practically , quotations

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