Often Misquoted Sayings

#1. Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

Periander

#2. I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so.

George Steinbrenner

#3. The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery

Oscar Wilde

#4. Now, I'm not going to be misquoted on this like I have numerous times before, so I'll be quite clear. I've never said hitler was my hero, just that if he had focused on more than one race he would have had the right idea. Try to turn that one against me.

Zach Braff

#5. Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people.

Karl Marx

#6. I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly.

Stanley Kubrick

#7. Oh, I got totally misquoted saying I can dance like Rihanna. I can't! What I did say is that I enjoy a dance-off with my stepdaughter and her friends.

Anna Maxwell Martin

#8. The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

#9. Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.

Jason Calacanis

#10. Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.

Bob Monkhouse

#11. Silence too, can be misquoted

Sweety Shinde

#12. Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Hesketh Pearson

#13. A man can smile and smile yet still be a villain,' I quoted. (Or misquoted. It was probably Shakespeare, most quotations seem to be.)

Trisha Ashley

#14. But wait. What blood from yonder mortal drips?" Lord Akeldama misquoted.

Gail Carriger

#15. An author should be delighted, not annoyed when he hears himself persistently misquoted. He could receive no higher compliment. It proves that the world has frequent and urgent need of his thoughts and will rather change the manner in which he expresses them than do without the things expressed.

Hesketh Pearson

#16. Silence can never be misquoted.

Calvin Coolidge

#17. I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing.

Daphne Guinness

#18. I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.

Dusty Springfield

#19. I've heard it quoted that I was dead. You can't believe anything you read. That was just an off-hand remark somebody picked up, and now it's been quoted and quoted, and therefore misquoted.

Tom Lehrer

#20. I tend to thrive on being misquoted. It's the only way I sound good.

Jamie Campbell Bower

#21. The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.

Gore Vidal

#22. I wish I could take back every interview. Over and over again, I read them later, and either I'm misquoted or I said something stupid. I'm just not very good at it.

Chloe Sevigny

#23. The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.

Robert Fisk

#24. I never said most of the things I said.

Yogi Berra

#25. Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of this earth

Yasser Seirawan

#26. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Let them eat croissants.

Brian Spellman

#27. I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.

Maura Tierney

#28. Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it ... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?

Tamsin Greig

#29. It is intensely frustrating to be misquoted.

Stuart Pearson Wright

#30. No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork.

Bill Gates

#31. I will not be misquoted!

Todd Barry

#32. My position on the POW issue has been widely misquoted and taken out of context. What I originally said and have continued to say is that the POW's are lying if they assert it was North Vietnamese policy to torture American Prisoners.

Jane Fonda

#33. You have the right to remain silent. Otherwise, anything you say might be misquoted and used against you.

Jill Shalvis