Daphne Guinness Quotes

For years, I've been interviewed, and they write what they thought I thought or what they thought I said. Sometimes it's accurate, and often it isn't.

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

Journalists have misquoted people for so long–and quoted them out of context–that many people like to have their words on record [in writing]. I don’t want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me… Just too much risk.

With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.

Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?

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.

I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.

I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.

And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had said they'd veto any second resolution - which wasn't true, we now know.

The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.

People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and they're usually 98 percent wrong.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

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.

It's always unfortunate when something gets misreported and the facts are not clear.

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

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.

The media can't get anything straight.

The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it.

Unfaithful to their meanings, words perturb our perturb our powers of reason ... the only safe words are our words.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

I won't do any print interviews anymore. No matter what I say, it gets distorted.

I hate seeing myself misquoted.

I don't mind being asked anything! Not at all. I tell you what is annoying, is when you say something and somebody writes something that's completely different to what you said, and you're like, 'well that's not nice, because that's not what happened.'

You could put it that way if you wanted to cause people concern. On the other hand, you could report it as I said it.