Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. — Samuel Johnson
Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation. — Louis Menand
The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. — Susan Sontag
A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. — Bob Dylan
Quotes are for dumb people who can't think of something intelligent to say on their own. — Bo Burnham
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. — Marlene Dietrich
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. — Herbert Spencer
Quoting E. B. White is the easiest way I know of to fool people into thinking that I am perceptive, witty, and wise. — Peter Behrens
Short Misquotation Quotes
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the naughtiest of them all? — Sara Shepard
All that glitters is not gold. — William Shakespeare
Practice is everythingThis is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect. — Periander
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd. — William Congreve
Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted. — Bob Monkhouse
Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect. — Periander
I know what you're thinking 'Did he fire six shots or only five? — Clint Eastwood
I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly. — Dusty Springfield
Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! — Herman J. Mankiewicz
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Misquoting Quotes
How does Satan mislead us? By misquoting Scripture. By leading us astray. By getting us to make excuses instead of repenting. — John Hagee
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
Words are such powerful things. We can rip somebody apart with them, we can write words down that can forever hurt another person. We can use them to tell stories and lies. We can misquote them and change what other people said to make ourselves look good. — Joan Bauer
No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork. — Bill Gates
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
Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. — Anonymous
I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. — Barry Goldwater
With just enough of learning to misquote. — Lord Byron
Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.N.B.: This quote is commonly misquoted as savage beast. — William Congreve
A man must serve his time to every trade, Save censure-critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote With just enough learning to misquote. — Lord Byron
Misjudge Quotes
Never assume people's motives. It's the easiest way to find yourself upset over nothing or misjudging people — LeCrae
A vital function of the free market is to penalize inefficiency and misjudgment and to reward efficiency and good judgment. By distorting economic calculations and creating illusory profits, inflation will destroy this function. — Henry Hazlitt
The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history. — Stefan Zweig
Although I am very interested in the subject of human misjudgment - and lord knows I've created a good bit of it - I don't think I've created my full statistical share, and I think that one of the reasons was I tried to do something about this terrible ignorance I left the Harvard Law School with. — Charlie Munger
All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments. — Bill Kristol
Time is passing. Each day is a glorious opportunity to live and enjoy. Today I will let the past die - all the undone things, all the misjudged things... Today, there are new pleasures, new challenges, new magic. — Ruth Carter Stapleton
All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments. — William Kristol
People in my inner circle of loved ones - we're tight and I've never misjudged someone as far as I know; I can feel someone's intentions, I know their intentions before they probably are honest enough with themselves to know it, so that's my strength. — Eva Mendes
Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces. — Peter Arnett
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
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?This is commonly misquotes as You can't have you're cake and eat it, too. — John Heywood
Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight. — David Hackett Fischer
I improve on misquotation. — Cary Grant
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. — Hesketh Pearson
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make. — Dan Quayle
With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish. — John McCarthy
I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so. — George Steinbrenner
The point in the report is that you shouldn't say to somebody just because they're Jewish, you must have an opinion on Israel. Any more than you say to anyone who is a Muslim you must have an opinion on any vile action that's been taken by misquoting the good name of Islam. I just ask people to be respectful and inclusive in their debate. — Jeremy Corbyn
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
My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, "I have such love in me, more than you can imagine. But, if I cannot provoke it, I will provoke fear." — Guillermo del Toro
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
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
Every interview is as much an impression of the journalist as it is the artist or subject. You look at interviews and you see a portrait of two people. The worst thing that can happen is if you're misquoted and then that quote is misquoted. That does drive one crazy. The most embarrassing thing is when your words are misrepresented or sometimes you say something stupid and you live to regret it. — Antony Hegarty
The underground press serves as the only effective counter to a growing power, and more sophisticated techniques used by establishment mass media to falsify, misrepresent, misquote, rule out of consideration as a priori ridiculous, or simply ignore and blot out of existence: data, books, discoveries that they consider prejudicial to establishment interest. — William S. Burroughs
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
I rarely ever respond to misquotes and wrong information. Plus, it only serves to bring attention to the matter. — Mark Ronson
The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery — Oscar Wilde
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
I had this perverse gravitation towards using a terrible cliché sandwiched in between absurd non-clichés because I thought it gave the cliché a new resonance. It kills me when my lyrics are misquoted, but as long as people are quoting them right, I don't care what anybody has to say about them. — Paul Banks
composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations. — Ned Rorem
The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors. — Richard Dawkins
It is intensely frustrating to be misquoted. — Stuart Pearson Wright
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
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