
“The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter — but it's a damn good book anyway.”
Review blurb for the first edition of The Quantum Universe http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521564573 (1987)
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Quotation and Originality
Source: Prose and Poetry
“The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter — but it's a damn good book anyway.”
Review blurb for the first edition of The Quantum Universe http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521564573 (1987)
“Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.”
Preface http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/preface.html
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
Source: My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 9 (Education At Bangalore).
“People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.”
“He was a learned man, of immense reading, but is much blamed for his unfaithfull quotations.”
"William Prynne"
Brief Lives
“"Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.”
Quine's paradox, in "The Ways of Paradox" in "The Ways of Paradox and other Essays" (1976)
1970s
“Chairman Mao was the first in the world to use Twitter. All his quotations are within 140 words.”
2000-09, The Bold and the Beautiful, 2009
“Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.”
May 8, 1781
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
Quoted in Cool Memories (1987) by Jean Baudrillard, (trans. 1990) Ch. 5; heard by Baudrillard at a lecture given in Paris.