# Quotes wrongly attributed

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**Created:** [October 14, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-wrongly-attributed/1023972 "2025-10-14T20:22:46Z")\
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> [@Zoobi](#):
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> Richard III never said “my kingdom for a horse”.

According to the well-known historian W. Shakespeare, he said it.

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> [@F.U.Shakespeare](#):
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> Ordinary Welles

Best autocorrect typo of the year.

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**Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-wrongly-attributed/1023972/43 "2025-10-16T01:14:27Z")

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LOL!

I’d say he was above average in some things, average in others.

I first heard the story in the last century, and thought it was a rumor.

But: [Orson Welles and Robert Blake Trade Jabs With Each Other - Carson Tonight Show](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN576TSACtM)

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**Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-wrongly-attributed/1023972/44 "2025-10-16T02:42:38Z")

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W. C. Fields never said, “any man who hates dogs and babies can’t be all bad.” It was spoken by polymathic humorist Leo Rosten about Fields at a tribute banquet in 1939.

But… it’s possible that Rosten knew it wasn’t original since a close variant of the phrase appeared in a _Harper’s_ magazine article in 1937. Surely Rosten, a PhD, would have been a reader of _Harper’s_.

Apposite to this thread (I never get to use apposite: thanks!) it’s likely, though not completely certain, that Yogi Berra really said, “I really didn’t say everything I said.” It’s also really said that Joe Garagiola made up most of Yogi’s Yogisms.

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