She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit…
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The Creative Impulse (1926)William Somerset Maugham
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit; adaptation, even more so.
Anonymous
A woman is, occasionally, quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation. It takes an abundance of imagination, to be sure.
Karl Kraus
To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason.
Robertson Davies
I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: "However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation correctly, an earlier source will be pointed out to you."
Nigel Rees
I was never in the army - I never had a uniform - I was never a soldier. I detest uniforms because they make one unfree. There is an old quotation that goes something like this: 'Your mind will be trained well, but confined to Spanish boots.' That quotation is very apt. It signifies how narrow the military mind becomes.
Hjalmar Schacht
Maugham, William Somerset
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