Groucho Marx Quotes

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

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.

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 hate seeing myself misquoted.

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

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

If you discuss other people, words get twisted; things get turned around.

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

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.'

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

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.

I will not be misquoted!

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

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.

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.

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

When you are responsible for telling the truth, you must take the time to find out what the truth is…. To find out the truth takes weeks. It takes only 5 minutes for a wrong message to travel around the entire globe.

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

People are always misquoting me.

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

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

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