who actually said that?
Ten quotes a day. Four suspects each. Then the receipts: the speech, the letter, the date.
play today's tenpick a name.Four candidates, all plausible. Keys 1 to 4 work too.
get the receipt.Work, date and a link to the source.
meet the impostor.If the line is famously credited to the wrong person, you get the story.
pick a pack.
- Statesmen & speeches36 quotesInaugurals, wartime addresses, letters from the people who ran things.
- Thinkers22 quotesPhilosophers, economists and political theorists.
- Writers & wits22 quotesNovelists, playwrights and the people who always had a line ready.
- Scientists & inventors20 quotesLaboratory notebooks, lectures and one famous telephone call.
- Myth-busters17 quotesFamous lines that everyone credits to the wrong person.
the numbers.
117sourced quotes
17famous mix-ups corrected
0day streak (yours)
–your accuracy