A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.
A great speech is literature.
In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
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.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.