Sentence examples for quotation itself from inspiring English sources

"Good artists copy; great artists steal," Picasso supposedly said, though the quotation itself has been swiped by others.

I believe the British form is to put the punctuation outside the quotes except when it is an integral part of the quotation itself.

In Britain and most other places where English is written, periods and commas can also go inside if, as Ms. Brown says, they are an "integral part of the quotation itself," or outside if they're not.

In the last of the Jeeves novels, Bertie actually quotes poetry to Jeeves, and, though the poet in question is Ogden Nash (Jeeves responds with Herrick), the quotation itself is aptly chosen.

The quotation itself is another matter.

The whole event a quotation of itself, a little boring.

Or, to put it another way: Jackson's quotation in itself doesn't mean he's the problem – it means the Bucks have a problem.

Stevenson felt that the quotation spoke for itself — that it was so intemperate and out of control that it would actually create sympathy for Olwyn, as Dido Merwin's intemperate lashings out at Plath only created sympathy for her victim.

As Bennie waits to be put on another flight, he has a lot of time on his hands, enough to miss first the rehearsal dinner and then the "wedding" itself (quotation marks courtesy of Benjamin, who's just found out that his daughter is marrying a woman), but not enough to write a novel.

That is almost worth quotation status by itself!

The Quick family's roots in India and her father's mysteriously undeclared Catholicism are the twin themes which inform this richly realised memoir, whose title derives from Evelyn Waugh's "twitch upon the thread", itself a quotation from GK Chesterton's Father Brown stories.