Pastoral Resources

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.