Edward Hesketh Gibbons Pearson (20 February 1887 – 9 April 1964) was an English actor, theatre director and writer. He is known mainly for his biographies; they made him the leading British biographer of his time, in terms of commercial success.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.