I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.

Life itself is a quotation.

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

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

The more fluent the experience of reading a quote - or the easier it is to grasp, the smoother it sounds, the more readily it comes to mind--the less likely we are to question the actual quotation.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

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

I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.

The Bible... provides no guide to reading the Bible. In fact, it is full of such inconsistencies, contradictions, lacunae, obscurities, baffling tales, and poetic imagery that to quote it at all is to select from conflicting alternative passages. Every quotation is therefore necessarily an interpretation.

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

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