The Finnish artist Henrik Tikkanen was known for his aphorisms presented with his illustrations in the newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet – fraudulently misattributed as quotations by famous people. Here are some more original pieces of stupidity or wisdom misattributed to the uninvolved.
Misquotes
edit
September 2010
edit
October 2010
edit
November 2010
edit
May 2011
edit
| “
|
Only Burnside could have managed such a coup, wringing one last spectacular defeat from the jaws of victory.
|
”
|
— Abraham Lincoln
President of the United States
|
August 2011
edit
September 2013
edit
You asked me once, what was in Room 641A. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 641A is the worst thing in the world.
October 2010
edit
March 2012
edit
| “
|
I have never killed a man, but I have read many an obituary with great pleasure.
|
”
|
| — Clarence Darrow (1857–1938)
|
November 2012
edit
| “
|
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.
|
”
|
| — George Orwell (1903–1950)
|
March 2014
edit
| “
|
To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal
|
”
|
| — Henry Kissinger, American Political scientist
|
May 2014
edit
| “
|
The demonization of Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one.
|
”
|
| — Henry Kissinger, American Political scientist [1]
|
June 2014
edit
July 2014
edit
| “
|
Most zionists don’t believe that God exists, but they do believe he promised them Palestine.
|
”
|
| — Ilan Pappé
|
