At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaffe, and muffle aggression.
Willis RegierIf you flatter yourself properly you will be better able to enjoy yourself. Stretch your joy so that others enjoy you too.
Willis RegierQuotologists encounter happy surprises, bright books by faded authors, treasures hidden under dust.
Willis RegierMisquotation is quotology’s swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It’s a mess we must wade into.
Willis RegierRalph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into books of a thousand pages. Through the centuries quotation collectors have saved quotations that would otherwise be lost.
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