What do you call a quote collector?

EDIT: As Chris Taylor made note of, there are multiple types of quotes. I mean quotes as in phrases written/spoken by someone (not insurance quotes, etc.).

Is there a single word that describes someone who collects quotes? I've seen both quotologist and quotographer used, but I'm not sure if either of those is "acceptable" in any serious circle.

Thoughts?

Solution 1:

I believe the word is

Quodophile

but I can't find it in any dictionary. It seems to be used quite a lot though. For example, there is: @Quodophile on Twitter or http://quodophile.tumblr.com/ who collect quotes.

This is based on if you mean quotes to be phrases by someone. If you mean quotes as in "insurance quotes", then the word might be 'client/customer' or 'potential client/customer'.

Solution 2:

I can offer the last half of an answer. A 'quotationist' is a "person who habitually uses quotations; (Literary Criticism) a writer whose work makes reference or allusion to the past" (OED). OED provides attestation of the senses ranging from 1644 (Milton) to 1985 (Hartman). A quick search at HathiTrust and elsewhere online turns up uses of 'quotationist' in the sense of a "person who habitually uses quotations" well into the 21st century.

The problem with 'quotationist' as an answer to this question ("What do you call a quote collector?"), and the reason I call it the last half of an answer, is that while anybody who habitually uses quotations must certainly have collected the quotes, a person who collects quotes does not necessarily use them, and so is not necessarily a quotationist in the historical sense.

For my part, I would not hesitate, if I thought I would be adequately understood, to call a mere collector of quotes a quotationist.