QUOTATION

[informal] quote [noun] [C]A quotation is a phrase or short piece of writing taken from a longer work of literature, poetry, etc. or what someone else has said.At the beginning of the book there is a quotation from Abraham Lincoln.(informal) I'd like to include a quote from Shakespeare, "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread".Quotation marks (also quote marks, UK also inverted commas or informal quotes) are the pair of printed marks put at the beginning or end of a word or phrase to show that someone else has written or said it.