quotation quotes

Everyquotation contributessomething tothestabilityor enlargement of the language.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  A Dictionary of the English Language, preface.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be classics, now it's lyric verse.

- Evelyn Arthur StJohn Waugh
  The Loved One, ch.9.