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a quote is an outstanding way to begin your introduction but why would you want to start your essay with a sentence from somebody else who was smart and famous because it makes you seem smart and famous the impression that the reader has about the speaker will be transferred to your essay so a quote is simply a sentence that you've taken from somewhere else when you use a quote in your introduction you're going to look for one or maybe two short sentences said by someone famous or qualified on your topic and it's usually a sentence that's kind of witty or insightful or even ironic that makes the reader smile it's a little different than the way we used quotes other places when we've said quote in the body of your essay this is a a sentence of evidence that you've taken from a textbook or a novel or a research book those kind of quotes in the body of your essay those have have facts and statistics and evidence and there are a little more serious and credible and clinical the quotes in your introduction or more lighthearted and in fun also don't mix these quotes up when from dialogue when you're reading a novel and someone speaks and the those words are in quotation marks that's dialogue that's something that a character says these quotes can be something that a famous person said or wrote you're just borrowing those words and putting quotation marks around them now a quote is not limited to something that a famous person said it can be any sentence that you've taken from somewhere else you can be a line from a poem can be a lyric from a song it can be a Bible verse some writers even use a dictionary definition but I consider that kind of clumsy and I don't advise it quotes are often easy to find just do a web search for your topic and quotes and there lots of wet lots of websites that just list lot tons of famous quotes by a famous people on almost any topic when you use a quote put the quote first in your introduction put the speaker second you want the full impact of the quotation to come first and then you can tell who said it second here's an example education is an admirable thing but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught wrote Oscar Wilde in a future step will talk about how that transition comes after the hook in the introductory paragraph if you've opened with a quote just know that the sentence after the quote should explain the quote so in your transition you're probably going to tell your reader what the quote means or what the quote has to do with your topic the concluding paragraph is going to have one sentence that links back to the hook if you've opened it with a quote you have a couple different choices my favorite is to find another quote by the same speaker so it's going to sound something like this Oscar Wilde also wrote experience is simply the name we give our mistakes a second choice is to find a quote from a different speaker but it's on the same topic especially if it kind of sounds similar so if we've still opened with our Oscar Wilde quote we can conclude with something like this GK Chesterton also wrote about education saying that it is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another if you can't find another quote by the same speaker or even another speaker you can just refer back to your original quote you can reuse a key word or phrase that will remind your reader about your initial quote again taking the Oscar Wilde statement you can conclude with something like teachers must still remember that anything worth knowing must be learned through experience in the real world so try using a quote in your introduction it's kind of like you had someone famous endorsing your essay