Misquoted Quote by Hesketh Pearson

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