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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

... in regard to his fellow craftsmen may best be given largely in his own words—words which cannot fail to be interesting, however little evidence they show of any attempt to make them quotable. ...

— Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature • Margaret Ball

... underscores at the beginning and end, like this. Quotations and other "quotable" matter, however, are ordinarily set off by quotation marks with no underscores in this edition, in accordance with common English usage, even where they were set in italics with no quotation marks in the Benziger Brothers edition. Titles of books are ...

— Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas

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