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Hemingway didn't say that: the truth behind familiar quotations

Hemingway didn't say that: the truth behind familiar quotations

Quotations online are often inaccurate. The Quote Investigator presents a corrective popular history and helpful insights.

2017

Stories

Quote Origin: Anger Is an Acid That Can Do More Harm To the Vessel In Which It’s Stored Than To…

Mark Twain? Ann Landers? Turkish Proverb? Mohandas Gandhi? Seneca the Younger? Frederica Mathewes-Green? Anonymous?

Jul 13, 2023

Quote Origin: Anger Is an Acid That Can Do More Harm To the Vessel In Which It’s Stored Than To…

Jul 13, 2023

Quote Origin: There’s No Point in Having Sharp Images If You’ve Got Fuzzy Ideas

Jean-Luc Godard? Ansel Adams? Richard Roud? Apocryphal?

Jul 9, 2023

Quote Origin: There’s No Point in Having Sharp Images If You’ve Got Fuzzy Ideas

Jul 9, 2023

Quote Origin: I Have Been Misquoted Everywhere, and the Inaccuracies Are Chasing Me Round the World

George Bernard Shaw? Ritchie Calder? Apocryphal?

Jul 7, 2023

Quote Origin: I Have Been Misquoted Everywhere, and the Inaccuracies Are Chasing Me Round the World

Jul 7, 2023

Quote Origin: You May Encounter Many Defeats, But You Must Not Be Defeated

Maya Angelou? Claudia Tate? Apocryphal?

Jul 3, 2023

Quote Origin: You May Encounter Many Defeats, But You Must Not Be Defeated

Jul 3, 2023

Quote Origin: The Word ‘No’ Is a Complete Sentence

Shonda Rhimes? Carol Burnett? Jane Fonda? Anne Lamott? Megan LeBoutillier? Bil Keane? Earl Wilson? Si Cornell? Anonymous?

Jun 30, 2023

Quote Origin: The Word ‘No’ Is a Complete Sentence

Jun 30, 2023

Quote Origin: Not a Day’s Work in All My Life.

Mark Twain? Lawrence Pearsall Jacks? Apocryphal?

Jun 29, 2023

Quote Origin: Not a Day’s Work in All My Life.

Jun 29, 2023

Quote Origin: Life Is Not a Journey To the Grave With the Intention of Arriving Safely

Hunter S. Thompson? Bill McKenna? Anonymous?

Jun 27, 2023

Quote Origin: Life Is Not a Journey To the Grave With the Intention of Arriving Safely

Jun 27, 2023

Anecdote Origin: Everything That Can Be Invented Has Been Invented

Henry L. Ellsworth? Charles H. Duell? Roswell Park? Royal S. Copeland? Apocryphal?

Jun 24, 2023

Anecdote Origin: Everything That Can Be Invented Has Been Invented

Jun 24, 2023

Quote Origin: It Is More From Carelessness About Truth Than From Intentional Lying That There Is So…

Samuel Johnson? James Boswell? Robert J. Hanlon? Apocryphal?

Jun 17, 2023

Quote Origin: It Is More From Carelessness About Truth Than From Intentional Lying That There Is So…

Jun 17, 2023

Quote Origin: Anything You Lose Automatically Doubles In Value

Mignon McLaughlin? Curzon Cooper? Robert Byrne? Apocryphal?

Jun 16, 2023

Quote Origin: Anything You Lose Automatically Doubles In Value

Jun 16, 2023

Quote Investigator®

Quote Investigator®

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Garson O'Toole specializes in tracing quotations. He operates the QuoteInvestigator.com website which receives more than 4 million visitors per year

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