Not my words: John Green's wrongly attributed line and other misquotes

As The Fault in our Stars author takes to YouTube to to reveal that one of his often quoted inspirational sentences wasn’t written by him, we look at some other famous victims of misquotation

“I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” So said John Green - only he didn’t. The author of last year’s top-selling novel, The Fault in Our Stars, explained in his YouTube series vlogbrothers that these words, often quoted as part of his book Paper Towns, were in fact written by a young blogger:

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative by the time you’re 35, you have no brain.”

Let them eat cake.”

I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy.”

The ends justify the means.”

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

Standing in the shoulders of giants”.

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