Ever day someone somewhere in the world is quoting me.

Hidden are the faces around me, like words tucked within quotation marks.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Some people, after having read a book, quote certain passages which they do not thoroughly understand, and moreover completely change their character by what they put in of their own. Those passages, so mutilated and disfigured that they are nothing else but their own expressions and thoughts, they expose to censure, maintain them to be bad, and the world agrees with them; but the passage such critics think they quote, and in reality do not, is not a bit the worse for it.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

People are always misquoting me.

Every face is hidden behind some mask or another yet still, they are deciphered just as phrases are understood from within quotation marks.

Sticks and stones have made me smarter it's words that cut me under my armor they say...

Words that they said to me at other times, I hear now.

My words itch at your ears till you understand them

People go out to look at sunrises and sunsets who do not recognize their own, quietly and happily, but know that it is foreign to them. As they do by books, so they quote the sunset and the star, and do not make them theirs. Worse yet, they live as foreigners in a world of truth, and quote thoughts, and thus disown them. Quotation confesses inferiority

When you read a quote from somebody, do you hear it in their voice?

I just tell people what they already know but are afraid to admit to themselves.

For I make others say what I cannot say so well,... I do not count my borrowings, but, weight them.... They are all, or very nearly all, from such famous and ancient names that they seem to identify themselves enough without me.