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Quotation: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.— R. B. SHERIDAN — The Rivals. Act IV. Sc. 3.
I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.— SWIFT — Polite Conversation. Dialogue I.
O we fell out, I know not why, And kiss'd again with tears.— TENNYSON — The Princess. Canto II.
Song. Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels. S.— VOLTAIRE — A Philosophical Dictionary.
Weakness on Both Sides.
There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.— BAYLE — Works. Vol. II. P. 779.
'Twas not an Age ago since most of our Books were nothing but Collections of Latin Quotations; there was not above a line or two of French in a Page. и.— DE LA BRUYÈRE — The Character or Manners of the Present Age. Ch. XV.
Of the Pulpit. All which he understood by rote, And, as occasion serv'd, would quote.— BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto I. L. 135.
Perverts the Prophets, and purloins the Psalms.— BYRON — English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. L. 326.
With just enough of learning to misquote.— BYRON — English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. L. 66.
To copy beauties, forfeits all pretence To fame-to copy faults, is want of sense.— CHURCHILL — The Rosciad. L. 457.
The greater part of our writers, *** have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.— ISAAC DISRAELI — Curiosities of
Literature. Quotation. The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by QUOTATION. aa.— ISAAC DISRAELI — Curiosities of
Literature. Quotation. A book which hath been culled from the flowers of all books. bb.— GEORGE ELIOT — The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. II.
A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.— EMERSON — Letters and Social Aims.
Quotation and Originality. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we quote. We quote not only books and proverbs, but arts, sciences, religion, customs, and laws; nay, we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs by imitation.— EMERSON — Letters and Social Aims.
Quotation and Originality. Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.— EMERSON — Letters and Social Aims.
Quotation and Originality. We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.— EMERSON — Letters and Social Aims.
Quotation and Originality. He that readeth good writers and pickes out their flowres for his own nose, is lyke a foole.— STEPHEN GOSSON — In the School of
Abuse. Loyterers. Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.— SAM'L JOHNSON — Preface to Dictionary.
C'est souvent hasarder un bon mot et vouloir le perdre que de le donner pour sien. A good saying often runs the risk of being thrown away when quoted as the speaker's own.— LA BRUYÈRE — Les Caractères. II.