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Quotable

adjective

Able or fit to be repeated or quoted. Synonym: repeatable. "He comes up with so many quotable phrases"

Suitable for or worthy of quotation. "His remarks are not quotable in mixed company"

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"Quotable" Quotes from Famous Books

... far as philosophy is concerned, but in the heap of incongruous statements which Pope brings together are a large number of quotable ...

— Outlines of English and American Literature • William J. Long

... to whom the metrical review had been apportioned, "is couched in sonorous lines, of haunting melody and charm; and yet so closely inter-related as to be scarcely quotable with justice to the author. To be appreciated the poem should be read as a whole,—I shall say as much in my review. What shall you say of the letter-press?" he concluded, addressing me. I was supposed to discuss the technical excellence of the ...

— The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue • Various

... whole, that it belongs to art. Then it is truly ideal, the forma mentis aeterna, not as a passive mould into which the thought is poured, but as the conceptive energy which finds all material plastic to its preconceived design. Mere vividness of expression, such as makes quotable passages, comes of the complete surrender of self to the impression, whether spiritual or sensual, of the moment. It is a quality, perhaps, in which the young poet is richer than the mature, his very inexperience ...

— Among My Books - First Series • James Russell Lowell

... room for lengthened criticism on all his separate productions. "The Rosciad" is the most finished, pointed, and Pope-like of his satires; it has more memorable and quotable lines than any of the rest. "The Prophecy of Famine" is full of trash; but contains, too, many lines in which political hatred, through its intense fervour, sparkles ...

— Poetical Works • Charles Churchill

Words linked to "Quotable" : quotability, unrepeatable, worthy, unquotable, repeatable