blind quote
noun1
A statement from an anonymous or unattributed source.
- There is a key line from Wolman that Isou must have missed (“And their revolts were turning into acts of conformity”); blind quotes from John Ford's Rio Grande and from Saint-Just (“Happiness is a new idea in Europe”).1989, Greil Marcus, “The Attack on Charlie Chaplin”, in Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009: