“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
“She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
“Vulgarity is no substitute for wit”
“She read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so soothing in the vicissitudes of their eventful lives.”
“Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. ”
“it should be quotations”