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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
quotable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Every press release should include a quotable, provocative statement from an officer or committee member of the organization involved.
▪ Meanwhile, those garrulous starlets who utter a quotable phrase almost every time they open their mouths are few and far between.
▪ Songwriters are another good source of quotable lines.
▪ They ignore ambiguities in their own writing, and in their interview material, which they treat as unproblematically quotable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quotable

Quotable \Quot"a*ble\ (kw[=o]t"[.a]*b'l), a. Capable or worthy of being quoted; as, a quotable writer; a quotable sentence. [1913 Webster] -- Quot`a*bil"i*ty (kw[=o]t"[.a]*b[i^]l"[i^]*t[y^]), n.
--Poe.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
quotable

1804, from quote (v.) + -able. Related: Quotably.

Wiktionary
quotable

a. Capable or worthy of being quoted; as, a quotable writer; a quotable sentence.

WordNet
quotable

  1. adj. able or fit to be repeated or quoted; "what he said was not repeatable in polite company"; "he comes up with so many quotable phrases" [syn: repeatable] [ant: unrepeatable, unrepeatable]

  2. suitable for or worthy of quotation; "a quotable slogan"; "his remarks are not quotable in mixed company"

Usage examples of "quotable".

Unlike Rachel and the others, he had a talent for delivering quotable lines.

The traveling troupe of players was anxiously awaited, fervently applauded, and their most quotable lines long remembered.

They have something quotable about the nature of the murder weapon, which has not been located.

One of the few memorable things that Bulwer said, who said so many quotable things, was that pure intellectuality is the devil, and on his plane Charley Steele comes near being pure intellectual.

We took her up once and it developed that she had said a most surprising number of things like that things, you know, that would be quite quotable if you could only remember them.

Andrew, it may be indicative of his distanced journalistic viewpoint, his tendency to turn everyone into quotable source.

Beltway insiders dismissed Breland as a light-weight and discounted his chances of making it as far as the nominating convention, he was good copy - as quotable as he was quixotic.

The quotable wisdom of hundreds of years pressed inside its square, fabric covers.

General Sherman, late of the Civil War and perpetrator of that quotable quote, had more on his mind with his march to the sea than we did on this babysitting gig.

Superficially noted long ago, categorized as a quotable quote because it touched so directly on his line of work, a dictum by Xavier Conroy drifted out of his subconscious: "Western culture is una process of transition from guilt-oriented, with a conscience, to shame-oriented, with a morbid fear of being found out.