Quotes: Quotations

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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American philosopher (1803-1882)

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Winston Churchill

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Max Beerbohm

English writer (1872-1956)

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Hesketh Pearson

British writer

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

Maurice Chevalier

French singer, actor, and entertainer (1888-1972)

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Walter Benjamin

German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Orson Welles

He wrapped himself in quotations – as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Rudyard Kipling

English writer and poet (1865-1936)

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

German and American actress and singer

Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning – that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks.

Lawrence Halprin

American landscape architect

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