Misquotation Quotes

#1. When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.

Laurence J. Peter

#2. To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of familiar misquotation.

Natalie Clifford Barney

#3. With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.

John McCarthy

#4. Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned.

Hesketh Pearson

#5. A writer can get into a vast deal of trouble through misquotation. If you ever want to receive lots of mail, I recommend you get a Shakespeare quote wrong in a magazine or newspaper.

Joseph Epstein

#6. Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

Hesketh Pearson

#7. Misquotation is quotology's swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It's a mess we must wade into.

Willis Regier

#8. [Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]

Albert Einstein

#9. Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#10. I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.

Gale Norton

#11. Let still woman take
An elder than herself: so wears she to him,
So sways she level in her husband's heart,
For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,
More longing, wavering, sooner to be lost and warn,
Than women's are.

William Shakespeare

#12. It takes pride and a tiger's drive to build up the confidence, the ego, the power to defeat an opponent in the ring. It

Muhammad Ali

#13. Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by their servants.

Michel De Montaigne

#14. Henceforth, the United States may have to determine how to cope with regional coalitions that seek to push America out of Eurasia, thereby threatening America's status as a global power.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#15. Tall and fair, with blue-green eyes, sandy hair streaked by the sun, and a lean and comely body, Gerris Drinkwater had a swagger to him, a confidence bordering on arrogance.

George R R Martin

#16. There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#17. (So ... what are you thinking?)
About life. How strange it is, how one decision can affect so many people for all of time.

Karen Kingsbury

#18. Crucial insights that we need to convey to ourselves can often be received only at night, like city church bells that have to wait until dark to be heard. During

Alain De Botton

#19. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.
Speeches

Adolf Hitler

#20. This is not the time to panic, this is the time to praise!

Cynthia Patterson

#21. My grandfather was a lot like a white Jewish George Jefferson, and he did not enjoy my work very much.

Jenny Slate