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Definition of quote : 1. A note upon an author.
2. To cite a passage from; to name as the authority for a statement or an opinion; as, to quote Shakespeare.
3. To cite, as a passage from some author; to name, repeat, or adduce, as a passage from an author or speaker, by way of authority or illustration; as, to quote a passage from Homer.
4. To name the current price of.
5. To notice; to observe; to examine.
6. To set down, as in writing.

Synonyms:

commendation, value, abduce, advert, price, paraphrase, reference, excerpt, quotation, mention, quotation mark, bring up, plagiarize, credit, acknowledgment, summon, refer, citation, inverted comma, demand, summons, extract, rate, adduce, name, request

deal, grant, approach, offer, present, impart, cite, give, submit, attempt, endow, invite, render, bid, issue, tender, bestow, advance, extend

recapitulation, reiteration, duplication, reproduction, recurrence, iteration, facsimile, replication, recitation, repetition

recapitulate, reiterate, duplicate, reproduce, recur, iterate, echo, replicate, recite, repeat

Usage examples:

• I quote Mr. MacColl again. - "The Psychology of Beauty", Ethel D. Puffer.
• Again I must quote one of our soldiers: 'I don't say', he remarked, 'that our average can run rings round their best; what I say is that our average is better than their average, and our best is better than their best. - "England and the War", Walter Raleigh.
• " I quote Saint Paul," he cried. - "Dwellers in the Hills", Melville Davisson Post.