<blockquote>
  <p>Big type, even huge type, can be beautiful and useful. But poise is usually far&nbsp;more important than size – and poise consists primarily of emptiness. Typographically, poise is&nbsp;made of&nbsp;white&nbsp;space.</p>
  
  <footer>Robert Bringhurst</footer>
    
</blockquote>
body {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: space-around;
  height: 100vh;
  font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif;
  background-color: #fff;
  padding: 0 2em;
  box-sizing: border-box;
  margin: 0;
}

blockquote {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  position: relative;
  width: 60%;
  min-width: 400px;
  max-width: 820px;
  font-size: 1.25vw;
  line-height: 1.4;
  text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;
  font-smoothing: antialiased;
  -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
  -moz-osx-fon-smoothing: grayscale;
}

blockquote p:first-of-type:before {
  content: '\201c';
  position: absolute;
  left: -.5em;
}

blockquote p:last-of-type:after {
  content: '\201d';
  position: absolute;
}

blockquote footer {
  position: relative;
}

blockquote footer:before {
  content: '–';
  position: absolute;
  left: -.6em;
}

@media screen and (max-width: 1600px) {
  blockquote {
    font-size: 2vw;
  }
}

@media all and (max-width: 1200px) {
  blockquote {
    font-size: 2.5vw;
  }
}

@media all and (max-width: 600px) {
  blockquote {
    font-size: 18px;
  }
  blockquote {
    width: 100%;
    min-width: 100%;
  }
}

//For what it's worth, you can replace the quote with one of your own. As long as each paragraph is marked up properly and the author attribution is in the <footer> element, the quotes will still function the same way!
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