'Quote the value for the cookie.  This can be any object supported
by :attr:`serialization_method`.
:param value: the value to quote.'

@classmethod
def quote(cls, value):

    if (cls.serialization_method is not None):
        value = cls.serialization_method.dumps(value)
    if cls.quote_base64:
        value = ''.join(base64.b64encode(value).splitlines()).strip()
    return value
