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Quote Extractor: List Every Quotation in a Text

This free tool finds all the quoted passages in a text and lists them, one per line. It understands straight and curly double quotes, single quotes and French quotation marks.

By Debmedia Technologies LLP · Kolkata, India · Updated

What Is It and When Do You Need It?

Journalists, students and researchers often need every quotation from a long text. Doing it by eye is slow and easy to get wrong.

Paste the text and pick the quote types.

How to Use This Tool

  1. Enter or paste your input in the box or boxes above.
  2. Choose the options, if there are any.
  3. Press the button to run the tool.
  4. Read the result and use the copy button where one is shown.

How the Calculation Works

The tool scans the text for opening quote marks and finds the matching closing mark. Each pair gives one quotation. For single quotes it requires the opening mark to follow a space, an opening bracket or the start, so apostrophes are skipped. The quotes are numbered in the order they appear.

Worked Example

In He said "come here" and she said "no". the tool finds come here and no.

Common Uses

  • Research and note taking.
  • Fact checking.
  • Collecting dialogue.
  • Preparing pull quotes.

Tips and Common Mistakes

  • Straight and curly quotes are both found.
  • Unclosed quotes are ignored.
  • Use the smart quotes converter first if your text is messy.
  • Check the first result against a case you already know, so you can trust the tool for the rest.
  • Nothing you type leaves your device. The work is done by your browser, so it also works with a slow connection once the page has loaded.

Next, you may need the smart quotes converter, text statistics counter, character counter, text repeater.

Everything runs in your browser. Nothing you type is uploaded, stored or sent to any outside service.

Frequently Asked Questions

Straight double quotes, curly double quotes, German style „ “, French « » and, if you choose, single quotes.
A single quote inside a word, like in don't, is an apostrophe. Only single quotes that open after a space or at the start are used.
Yes. A quotation can run over line breaks.
No. It extracts the quoted words only.

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