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Quotes About Misquote

I've been so mutilated by a lot of articles. I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying in the papers.
~ Mary Docter
At no time did I suggest that violence is justice, and I can't believe I even have to explain that. But the alternative is letting someone like Kayleigh McEnany misquote and manipulate what you say. McEnany, who repeatedly lies to the American people.
~ Brianna Keilar
A lot of people they say a lot of things in the press, but I never said that I want to leave Chelsea, never.
~ Willian
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn't make any sense if quoted as it stands.
~ Robert Benchley
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
There are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views
~ Albert Einstein
The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Quotations cause all kinds of trouble.
~ Willis Goth Regier
Politicians take something out of context to create problems.
~ Anurag Kashyap
We have all said things that are offensive when taken out of context. You don't need to tell the public to be repelled. They will tell you they are repelled.
~ Lee Mack
In my 20 years of baseball, I've been misquoted three or four times, and for someone who talks as much as I do, that's incredible.
~ Curt Schilling
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
Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.
~ Anonymous
Be careful--with quotations, you can damn anything.
~ Andre Malraux
Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
~ Groucho Marx
I never said half the things I said.
~ Yogi Berra
The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
I rarely find that things put in quotes, attributed to me, are things that I said -certainly in the context in which they are presented.
~ Annie Potts
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
When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.
~ Thomas Frank
Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90% of the time they've transcribed the lyrics incorrectly?
~ Kurt Cobain
It is foolish to hold against me remarks that I never made.
~ Nicolas Anelka
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Dead and never called her mother, in fact," misquoted Sloan, who had once seen the Berebury Amateur Dramatic Society play East Lynne, and never forgotten the searing experience.
~ Catherine Aird