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Quotes About Misquote

It is my belief that throughout the history of the positronic robot, the First Law of Robotics has been deliberately misquoted.
~ Isaac Asimov
When someone has an opinion, even if it ends up misquoted, people jump on it.
~ James Milner
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
I hate seeing myself misquoted.
~ Pete Doherty
First things first: Marie Antoinette never said, 'Let them eat cake.' Those words were attributed to an earlier French Queen, Marie-Therese, the wife of the Sun King Louis XIV. By 1767---a year in which Marie Antoinette was still an innocent German-speaking twelve-year-old in Austria....
~ Kris Waldherr
Don't quote me; that's what you heard, not what I said.
~ Lawrence K. Frank
A lot of times you do interviews and people twist your words. TMZ said something like I hate my male fans. I never said that, I said I wish I had more female fans, never said I hate male fans.
~ Quinton Jackson
Sometimes the media twists your words, and they say things to get a headline, and it's not necessarily what came out of your mouth, and they take things out of context 90 percent of the time. But I guess - any publicity is good publicity, I guess.
~ Paige VanZant
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
~ Robert Benchley
Now I know that there's no such thing as the truth. That people are constantly misquoted. That news organizations are full of conspiracy (and that, in any case, ineptness is a kind of conspiracy). That emotional detachment and cynicism get you only so far.
~ Nora Ephron
When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.
~ Laurence J. Peter
I never said half the crap people said I said.
~ Albert Einstein ??
I never said all that [$#*t].
~ Confucius ??
Miss Quote is so inaccurate She never gets it right; Miss Attribute does so too Forever wrongly cite, Spreading literary blight!
~ Terri Guillemets
Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
~ Groucho Marx
I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing.
~ Daphne Guinness
Many in the media reported that I said Papa John's is going to close stores and cut jobs because of Obamacare. I never said that.
~ John Schnatter
I never said most of the things I said.
~ Yogi Berra
You have the right to remain silent. Otherwise, anything you say might be misquoted and used against you.
~ Jill Shalvis
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
~ Gore Vidal
As Em would one day act out for me, pantomimists are always misquoted.
~ John Irving
Responding to a question about remarks attributed to him that he did not think were his: "I really didn't say everything I said."
~ Yogi Berra
You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you.
~ Anonymous
The privilege of the living is to misquote the dead.
~ Unknown