The whole process may be illustrated by looking up a familiar quotation, finding it in the expected words, and in the expected part of the book.

It might not have been a direct quote by Paul: "This saying was widely known as a familiar quotation."

It's a familiar quotation from one of Gorovin's plays.

To use a familiar quotation, 'It is a great advantage to be intelligent and not to look it.'

Hunt down a familiar quotation and read it in context.

While many people knew of the painting before the movie, it would not have been a familiar quotation 15 years ago.

Introductory art-history courses tend to consist of compendiums of familiar quotations.

One way is to use familiar quotations (in Russian we sometimes call them "winged words").

It was listed in the dictionary of familiar quotations from 1919.

The composer's more pop-oriented offerings showed the same ability to evoke the familiar without actual quotation, but in a different realm.