The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
—Amanda Cross
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
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
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
—Dorothy L. Sayers
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