In quoting others, we cite ourselves.

Julio Cortázar — Writer

Most collectors collect tangibles. As a quote collector, I collect wisdom, life, invisible beauty, souls alive in ink.

Terri Guillemets — Quotation Anthologist

Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges — Writer

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde — Writer

The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.

John Jay Chapman — Writer

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Ambrose Bierce — Writer

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

Janet Malcolm — Journalist

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

Brendan Behan — Writer

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.

Marlene Dietrich — Actress

I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.

John Bartlett — Quotation Anthologist