The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting. —Amanda Cross More about this quote Tags: quotation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “quotation” Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: quotation originality repition Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. —Dorothy L. Sayers More about this quote Tags: thought quotation originality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names. —Elaine Gill More about this quote Tags: history power feminism men quotation gender names Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email 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 More about this quote Tags: privilege reading learning pride quotation misquotation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: quotation originality repition Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. —Dorothy L. Sayers More about this quote Tags: thought quotation originality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names. —Elaine Gill More about this quote Tags: history power feminism men quotation gender names Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: privilege reading learning pride quotation misquotation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email