Quotes & Sayings About Being Misquoted

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

I tend to thrive on being misquoted. It's the only way I sound good. — Jamie Campbell Bower

The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery — Oscar Wilde

We respect your learning, Dr Einstein; but there is one thing you do not seem to have learned: that God is a spirit and cannot be found through the telescope or microscope, no more than human thought or emotion can be found by analyzing the brain. As everyone knows, religion is based on Faith, not knowledge. Every thinking person, perhaps, is assailed at times with religious doubt. My own faith has wavered many a time. But I never told anyone of my spiritual aberrations for two reasons: (1) I feared that I might, by mere suggestion, disturb and damage the life and hopes of some fellow being; (2) because I agree with the writer who said, 'There is a mean streak in anyone who will destroy another's faith.' . . . I hope, Dr Einstein, that you were misquoted and that you will yet say something more pleasing to the vast number of the American people who delight to do you honor. — Richard Dawkins

The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted. — Gore Vidal

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