Misquote Quotes & Sayings

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn about anyone else — L.J.Smith

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

Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don't even mind if you misquote me ! — Man Ray

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

My dear, I don't give a damn. — Margaret Mitchell

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary. — Edgar Allan Poe

When people sometimes misquote me, I don't know if they understand what I'm saying. — Tommy Wiseau

Into the breach, then. Against mobs of middle-aged moms and frightening harridans we shall prevail."
She nodded sharply, raising an invisible sword. "And damned be he - she - who cries, 'Hold, enough!'"
"Misquote Shakespeare in front of Samuel, I dare you," I told her, and she laughed. — Patricia Briggs

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

Don't misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way. That would be a dastardly lie. — Carl Paladino

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

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

How do you get to Carnegie Hall?"
"I-95. — Bryan Way

She liked to laugh that a young widow who'd just come into a good fortune must be, to misquote Jane Austen, in want of a husband. — Jennifer Ashley

In his temptation of Jesus, Satan quoted Scripture, and he didn't remember, misquote anything. God wants his children to eat bread, not to starve before stones. God will protect his anointed one with the angels of heaven. God will give his Messiah all the kingdoms of the earth. All this is true. What is satanic about all of this, though, is that Satan wanted our Lord to grasp these things apart from the cross and the empty tomb. — Russell D. Moore

We all stared at the scoreboard in stunned silence. Only Carter was able to get anything out.
"That," he told Robert exuberantly, "is how a bird in the hand gets up before the early worm."
"That doesn't make any sense," said Roger.
Carter pointed at the scoreboard. "Neither does that, but there you have it. — Richelle Mead

When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer. (Technically a misquote, but I like the misquote better) — Plutarch

Thomas Jefferson once said: 'Of course the people don't want war. But the people can be brought to the bidding of their leader. All you have to do is tell them they're being attacked and denounce the pacifists for somehow a lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.' I think that was Jefferson. Oh wait. That was Hermann Goering. Shoot.
[Hosting the Peabody Awards for broadcasting excellence at the New York Waldorf-Astoria, June 6, 2006] — Jon Stewart

The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke miracles in order to compress the events of the earth's history into the biblical span of a few thousand years; their unwillingness to abandon claims clearly disproved, including the assertion that all fossils are products of Noah's flood; and their reliance upon distortion, misquote, half-quote, and citation out of context to characterize the ideas of their opponents. — Stephen Jay Gould

Do you know great people are continually quoted while the average always misquote great people? — Onyi Anyado

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.") — Maya Angelou

People commonly misquote the old Sacrinomicon and say that money is the root of all evil, which is moronic if you think about it. The real quote is that the love of money is the root of all sorts of evil. Not as pithy, but a lot truer. — Brent Weeks

anyone who has crammed for a school exam knows how easy it is to misquote in a showdown. — Jack Lait

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry
out a death sentence properly reached. — Antonin Scalia

When I then turned toward the scriptures, they appeared to me to be quite unworthy to be compared with the dignity of Tully. For my inflated pride was repelled by their style, nor could the sharpness of my wit penetrate their inner meaning. Truly they were of a sort to aid the growth of little ones, but I scorned to be a little one and, swollen with pride, I looked upon myself as fully grown. — Augustine Of Hippo

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. — Niels Bohr

The only good human being is a dead one. — George Orwell

Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. — Anonymous

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
[misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031] — Benjamin Franklin

The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others. — Arthur Schopenhauer