Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit; adaptation, even more so.
Anonymous
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit…
William Somerset Maugham
A woman is, occasionally, quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation. It takes an abundance of imagination, to be sure.
Karl Kraus
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
Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like the Pyramids? Who ever skipped a quotation, though it made against the interest of the story? Besides, how many books might be numbered that are valuable only in a solitary quotation!—as the oyster is esteemed for the pearl it may sometimes contain.
Samuel Laman Blanchard
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Anouilh, Jean
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