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The Manual of Style guidelines for block quotations recommend formatting block quotations using the {{Quote}} template or the HTML <blockquote> element, for which that template provides a wrapper.
- Quotes work best when used with short sentences, and at the start or end of a section, as a hint of or to help emphasize the section's content.
- For typical quotes, especially those longer than the rest of the paragraph in which they are quoted,
{{Cquote}} provides a borderless quote with decorative quotation marks, and {{Quote frame}} provided a bordered quote. Both span the page width.
- For very short quotes,
{{Rquote}} (with decorative quotation marks) or {{Quote box}} (framed) can be used to set the quote off to either the right or left as in a magazine sidebar. This can be effective on essay pages and WikiProject homepages.
For quotes, this template provides a centered, borderless quote, with scalable decorative quotation marks, and optional attribution of the source of the quote. It can be used with or without the names of the parameters.
{{Cquote|quote=text of the quotation|author=person quoted|source=source of the quotation}}
- Parameter
1, quote
- text of the quote; use
<p>...</p> around second or subsequent paragraphs.
- Required
Note: if the quote text contains a = (equal sign), then the template must be called with a named parameter for the content. For example: {{Cquote|quote=quote text=more quoted text}} (see Help:Template § Usage hints and workarounds).author- Name of the person that wrote or spoke the text being quoted. Can include wiki syntax.
source- Source of the quote (publication title, speech, etc.). Can include wiki syntax. Can be used without
|author= (e.g. for a scripture, law, or other source without an author per se)
bgcolor- The color of the background.
float- Defaults to center, but can also be right or left. Usually used with
|width=30% or so (otherwise for quotes longer than one line on the rendered page, the float will have no useful effect).
width- for example
|width=30%
qcolor- color of quotemarks, for example
|qcolor=#FF0000 for a red color (only for use in SF:Signpost, and personal pages; do not use in articles, guidelines, etc.)
rtl- set to any non-blank value for quotes that should be rendered from right to left (e.g., Arabic). Adds the necessary dir attribute and reverses the quotes.
quotealign- set to center to center align the quote text.
Deprecated:
wide- In older versions of the template, when this was set to "yes", the quote expanded to the entire width of the page, which was useful for long quotes. However, it clashed with other floating objects, such as infoboxes, and the template now auto expands and line wraps as needed (full page, or within a
|width= constraint).
{{Cquote|quote text}}
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To be, or not to be ...
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{{Cquote|Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
|author=[[Albert Einstein]]
|source=in a letter to his son<ref>[[Walter Isaacson]], ''Einstein: His Life and Universe'' (2007), p. 367.</ref>
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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
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{{Cquote|1=F=ma|author=[[Isaac Newton]]}}
(the 1= is necessary as quote text contains an equal sign)
{{Cquote|Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.|source=First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States |float=right |width=30%}}
(source with no author; floated right and width-constrained)
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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| — First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
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Note that it will wrap around article text like this.Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
{{Cquote|Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.|source=First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States |width=50%}}
(same quote, no float, width constraint)
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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| — First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
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{{Cquote|Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.|source=First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States}}
(same quote, no float, no width setting – for short quote, would use as much of line as necessary, and for longer quotes, full width of page, wrapping for multiple lines.)
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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| — First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
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| Template | Use / description | | ↓ Block quotations | General purpose | | {{Quote}} | Our standard block quotation template: unbordered page-wide quotation with optional smaller-sized attribution | | {{Poem}} | {{Quote}} variant for use with poems, song lyrics, and other things that would otherwise require the use of <poem> tags or frequent formatting elements (such as <br />); requires substitution | | {{Poemquote}} | {{Quote}} variant for use with poems, song lyrics, and other things that would otherwise require the use of <poem> tags or frequent formatting elements (such as <br />); does not require substitution | | {{Verse translation}} | Displays original language verse (defaults to italics) and translated verse (roman) side-by-side | | {{Gbq}} | {{Quote}} variant for use inside glossaries | | {{Cquote}} | Page-wide quote, between large quotation marks | | {{Rquote}} | Quote between large quotation marks in a reduced floating area | | {{Quote frame}} | Page-wide bordered quote | | {{Quote box}} | Quote floated in a reduced bordered box | | {{Tweet}} | For quoting directly from tweets. Automatically generates {{Cite tweet}} citation, or a custom reference can be provided. | | | | | ↓ Talk page quoting | Not for use in articles at all | | {{Talk quote inline}}(shortcut: {{tq}}){{tqq}}, {{tqi}}, or {{tqqi}} | Inline quotation for use on talk pages | | {{Talk quote block}}(shortcut: {{tq2}}) | Block-style quotation for use on talk pages | | | | | ↓ Alternative | For indenting non-quotations | | {{Block indent}} | To indent an entire block of content (uses <div> and CSS margins) |
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