The moon shone like herrings in the water.

In reviewing films, people get quite liberal about saying "the script" this and "the script" that, when they've never read the script any more…

— William Monahan

Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.

— John Dryden

Red herrings are fake clues put in place by writers and bad guys to stop you guess what's really going on. One of the…

— Rachel Hamilton

What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles? [A Herring]

— Leo Rosten

“It is a peculiarity of the English language that while most fish swim in schools, herring swim in shoals, a word of the same…

— Mark Kurlansky

I trained karate in 2001 to fight Heath Herring.

— Vitor Belfort

That's America for you - a red herring culture, always scared of the wrong things. The fact is, there are a lot of creepy…

— Bill Maher

A kind word is no substitute for a piece of herring or a bag of oats.

— Sholom Aleichem

Such letters...from the FDA, are, filled with objectively demonstrable lies, practiced deceptions and deviousness, red herrings, directed misinformation, misdirected information, etc. ...Once FDA-NCI-AMA-ACS...concedes that…

— Dean Burk

Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We are trying to get marijuana reclassified medically. If we do that, we'll be using the issue as a red herring to give marijuana…

— Keith Stroup

Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

— Garry Disher

It's the way I feel about acting. That we are given clues by a writer about someone's essence or persona and it's our job…

— Kevin Spacey

New herrings, new!' we must cry, every time we make ourselves public, or else we shall be christened with a hundred new titles of…

— Thomas Nashe

“I think I’m falling for a red herring here,”

— Liane Moriarty