Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
Janet Malcolm
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
Dorothy L. Sayers
In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.
Evelyn Waugh
Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges