Quotes About Misattribution

#1. [An example of misattribution:]

If you don't know the source of a quote,
you can always make it sound better by attributing it to me.

- Mark Twain

Jakub Marian

#2. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

Marcus Aurelius

#3. The researchers argued that an orderly environment fosters a sense of responsibility not so much by deterrence (since Groningen police rarely penalize litterers) as by the signaling of a social norm: This is the kind of place where people obey the rules.

Steven Pinker

#4. I can see it in the looking back, how this daily practice of the discipline of gratitude is the way to daily practice the delight of God ...

Ann Voskamp

#5. Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his generation by spending considerable time and effort chiseling an obscene word in the concrete picnic table, and he had spelled it correctly.

Dean Koontz

#6. But . . ." Dominic floundered around for a bit before pointing at me accusingly. "You said that there's weird shit, but it normally turns out to have a rational explanation."
"It does," said Beverley. "The explanation is a wizard did it.

Ben Aaronovitch

#7. You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits.

Anna Quindlen

#8. Finding a psychic on Google probably wasn't the most reputable way of sourcing contact with God,

Jessica Smith

#9. Yes Harry I believe that is true. I cannot help telling you things. You have a curious influence over me. If I ever did a crime I would come and confess it to you. You would understand me.

Oscar Wilde

#10. When I took my first poetry class, I felt that I could understand the relationships between words and the formal qualities of language in a way I would never understand music.

Garth Greenwell

#11. It is always a joyful spring when your heart can dance and your soul can sing.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Love and worry. They went hand in hand. Fellow travelers.

Louise Penny

#13. When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.

Nicole Richie

#14. To me, sympathy was like alcohol on a scraped knee. It didn't really heal anything; it just made the injury sting.

Jill S. Alexander