It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.
I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.
Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.