Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare.
Shakespeare is universal.
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.