Misquotations are the only quotations that are never…

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that…

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

— Ned Rorem

Your sweet little book is a bizarre collection of out-of-context quotations, misquotations, misleading quotations, non sequiturs, errors of fact and just about every other…

— Donna Pomona

An author should be delighted, not annoyed when he hears himself persistently misquoted. He could receive no higher compliment. It proves that the world…

— Hesketh Pearson

It is intensely frustrating to be misquoted.

— Stuart Pearson Wright

“My silence is golden and can never be misquoted." ~Elissa Gabrielle”

— Elissa Gabrielle

I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of…

— Daphne Guinness

If you misquote me, I'll come out and be like, they misquoted me. This is what I said. This is exactly how I meant…

— Spencer Dinwiddie

“They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice. (Frequently misquoted as "He has a…

— William Penn

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

— Jamie Campbell Bower

Every interview is as much an impression of the journalist as it is the artist or subject. You look at interviews and you see…

— Antony Hegarty

I'm very used to being misquoted.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery

— Oscar Wilde

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you.

— Anonymous

Sometimes, not saying anything is the best answer. You see, silence can never be misquoted.

— Anonymous