Quote Accuracy Quotes

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

I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly.

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

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

I don't have the best track record with quotes.

You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging.

Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.

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.

What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.

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.

I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.

I know my career is going badly because I'm being quoted correctly.

You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.

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.

Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned.

People are always misquoting me.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

I don't particularly like it when people put words in my mouth, either, by the way, unless I say it.

I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.

Famous quotes are seldom quoted correctly.

If you're going to abridge a book in the author's own words, you can't go sticking your own in.

God - if the press ever quoted anyone correctly, it would be brilliant.