Famous Quotes

Real words from famous people: who they were, what they did, and the lines they actually said or wrote.



Famous people, real words

Famous names attract fake quotes. On these pages we tell the story of each person briefly and keep only the lines we can trace to a book, a speech, an interview or a letter.

Every famous quote on these pages carries its author and the book, speech or letter it comes from. Lines we wrote ourselves are marked as Pretty Phrases originals, and when a popular quote turns out to be fake, we say so.