Most annoying misquotation?

[FierceKitty]

For me, it's Peace in our time.

[cbr3d.com]

For me it is 'I hear what you say', often said by politicians who never finish it off, the next line is 'but I am going to bloody ignore it anyway'.

[FierceKitty]

How is that a misquotation?

[cbr3d.com]

Because they never verbally finish the quote, they only think it.

[FierceKitty]

What's being quoted? I seem to be rather slow this morning.

[Ithoriel]

"Peace in our time" is a quotation, it's just not a quote from Neville Chamberlain.

[FierceKitty]

And when quoted as being from him, it therefore qualifies. But you score points for knowing it's not what he said.

[Ithoriel]

And when quoted as being from him, it therefore qualifies. But you score points for knowing it's not what he said.

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[Techno]

 
Cheers - Phil

[Techno]

Back to the topic.....
".........Let them eat cake."...Marie Antoinette.

Cheers - Phil

[Fenton]

 
Cheers - Phil

I hate it when people misquote Teckno

[Redstef]

"the trouble with quotes on the internet is that 95% of them are false"
Abraham Lincoln

[fsn]

"Lead on McDuff"  ("Lay on McDuff")
"Alas poor Yorick, I knew him well."  ("Alas poor Yorick, I knew him, Horatio.")
                                Both by Bill Shakespeare.

"Beam me up, Scotty". (Never said).
                                Cap'n Kirk

"Let me just conduct a risk assessment on that." (Again, never said.)
                                 Techno

[Techno]

You total, utter, oik, Nobby !
Me
Cheers - Phil

[FierceKitty]

Before somebody else gets in:

Elementary, my dear Watson.

Play it again, Sam.

[getagrip]

"Don't throw bloody spears at me"

Michael Caine NOT in "Zulu,"  actually from "The Man Who Would Be King. "

[Fenton]

"Don't throw bloody spears at me"

Michael Caine NOT in "Zulu,"  actually from "The Man Who Would Be King. "

Theres not many  people know that

P.Sellers pretending to be M.Caine

[getagrip]

Not a lot of people know that

P.Sellers pretending to be M.Caine

Knew it would only be a matter of time 

[Luddite]

There's a couple that annoy me.

'Theirs but to do or die!'
Actually: 'Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die'.

'Wait till you see the whites of their eyes lads.'
I've often heard this one attributed to Caine in Zulu, but it originates from Colonel William Prescott commander of George Washington's Continental Army, at the Battle of Bunker Hill, who is quoted saying, 'Don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes. Then, fire low!'

[Vamboozle]

Someone I work with insists on saying things "are a mute point"

No no no NO NO NO

Moot point.  MOOT

From the Anglo-Saxon moot meeting......

(Sorry it really upsets me and I can't say anything to her as she is the client)