Hesketh Pearson Quotes

I improve on misquotation.

Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

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.

I never said half the things I said.

I will not be misquoted!

Everything I say is true.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

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

It is an occupational hazard to be quoted out of context.

When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.

I hate seeing myself misquoted.

The wrong word is like a lie jammed inside the story.

Every witticism is an inexact thought; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.

I like to quote things.

I find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the language.

The word abbreviation sure is long for what it means.

Quotations are powerful tools. Michel de Montaigne, the father of all essayists, observed, 'I quote others only to better express myself.' Intrepid quotations detective Ralph Keyes helps us to discover the clear truth about exactly what was said and who exactly said it.

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.

Any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood.

People are always misquoting me.

An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.

Why do I wear tennis shoes? That's two questions. Do I wear tennis shoes? The answer to that question is, "Yes." "Why?" That's a question philosophers have been pondering for centuries.

I dont like quotes. You can quote me on that.