Usually, the sources are easy to identify; it's figuring out what the quoter has in mind that can be tricky.

Clearly the quoter would have preferred the U.S. spelling "analyze".

Obama is a quietly ecumenical quoter.

Mr. Parker can make Spenser a skillful cook and a quoter of literature.

Poet and quoter of Shakespeare and Proust.

Savours is a skilled manipulator and interpreter of data, and a judicious quoter of primary sources.

He was also a tremendous quoter of poetry stanzas - Browning, Kipling and his favorite, the Earl of Rochester.

You don't need to have read all the books that Pritchett has read; he prompts you to go out and read them (he is a lavish quoter).

She is an enthusiastic but indiscriminate quoter, who during her campaign flummoxed unliterary types at her meetings by flinging in lines from Kipling and Gide.

The words were fine, but the quotation in context reveals foolhardiness, making the reference less than apt and leaving the errant quoter bound in shallows and in miseries.

At one point this incessant quoter of other poets, usually for sardonic effect, quotes straight the reiterated knell "Timor mortis conturbat me" in William Dunbar's 16th-century dirge.

For instance, the appearance of a bracketed sic after the word analyse on a book cover led Bryan A. Garner to comment, "... all the quoter (or overzealous editor) demonstrated was ignorance of British usage."

It is a wry, sometimes moving account of a dutiful son who, after Oxford, follows the advice of his father - a compulsive quoter of the classics, much in the style of Rumpole - and against his better judgment takes up the law.

A compulsive quoter of wedding announcements in The New York Times, she takes pleasure in anything approaching the prototypical: the super preppy who is the daughter of a yachtsman and a watercolorist; the bride whose nuptials appear under the headline, "A Clown Marries."

More Eliot from this most unlikely quoter of verse: The red-eyed scavengers are creeping. . . . "Again," Neil said, for though he didn't share Molly's extensive knowledge of the poet, he recognized the incongruity of those words spoken by this individual.

The play, first performed in December 2007 at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, London, retains one of the central characters, Lady Smatter - an absent-minded but inveterate quoter of poetry, perhaps perceived as a comic rendering of a bluestocking type of literary woman.

The problem here is not the removal of a quote from its original context (as all quotes are) per se, but to the quoter's decision to exclude from the excerpt certain nearby phrases or sentences (which become "context" by virtue of the exclusion) that serve to clarify the intentions behind the selected words.