Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
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The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.
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Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.
quote by Henry W. Fowler
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A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.
Henry W. Fowler in A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926)
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I will not be misquoted!
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Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
Hesketh Pearson in Common Misquotations (1934)
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I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so.
quote by George Steinbrenner
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Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.
quote by Bob Monkhouse
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I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.
quote by Dusty Springfield
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I Am Sorry Voltaire
so sorry
voltaire dear
i have
misquoted you
thanks to
adria aka claire dasani..
my sincere
appreciation
Ph. D. in Literature,
oh my!
forgive
my ignorance
i crack....
nuts!
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Practice is everythingThis is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.
Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.
Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
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A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
quote by Robert M. Hamilton
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
quote by Andre Malraux
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To me, novels are just quotations with a bunch of filler.
quote by Terri Guillemets
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The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
quote by Guy Debord
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