To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
I tend to thrive on being misquoted. It's the only way I sound good.
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.