Be careful—with quotations, you can damn anything.

—Andre Malraux

More quotations from Andre Malraux

An art book is a museum without walls.

—Andre Malraux

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone—even to himself.

—Andre Malraux

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

—Andre Malraux

The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.

—Andre Malraux

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More quotations tagged with “quotations”

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

—Amos Bronson Alcott

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

—Ambrose Bierce

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.

—Alfred North Whitehead

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

—Alfred North Whitehead

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

—Simeon Strunsky

History

11 Jul 2015 Added
26 Oct 2026 Wording changed

Previous wording

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.