#quotation

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

— Brendan Francis

#authority #book #hands #infantryman #like

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence. ↗

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#lamp #light #like #over #quotation

With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish. ↗

— John McCarthy

#levels #made #misquotation #more #say

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#literary #literary men #men #over #parole

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#fine #fool #hand #man #pebble

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#everything #i #i always #original #quotation

Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. ↗

— Ashwin Sanghi

#chanakya-s-chant #humorous-quotations #humor

I will tell you something that you don’t want to hear: Autumn is ugly! Look at the dying leaves! There is no beauty in dying! Death is always ugly! The beauty of autumn is just an illusion, my friend! Wake up and see the real truth! See the crying leaves! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#beauty

To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation. ↗

— Charles Edward Montague

#great #quotation #read #spring #you

A bug lies in quiet repose; when he passed no one knows. Did he suffer, was he pained? Before he died, was knowledge gained? Were all life’s pressures much too great.To put upon so small a weight? Although not one for pessimism, I think he died of journalism! ↗

— Nikhil Sharda

#journalism #life