#quotation

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

#fact #in fact #learned #man #misquotation

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#juxtaposition #quotations #surrealist #taste

We lost Klimmt, Schiele and Moll ↗

— George Pratt

#humorous-quotations #art

I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#belong #commas #detest #found #gave

I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses. ↗

— Bill Walsh

#beginning #caution #ending #i #quotation

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#dying #i #national #quotation #vice

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#down #jelly #much #people #quotations

If you do goodness, do it in the name of goodness, not in the name of a religion! All goodnesses should be nameless! ↗