"An analogous process I shall call Churchillian Drift ... Whereas quotations with an apothegmatic feel are normally ascribed to Shaw, those with a more grandiose or belligerent tone are, as if by osmosis, credited to Churchill. All humorous remarks obviously made by a female originated, of course, with Dorothy Parker. All quotations in translation, on the other hand, should be attributed to Goethe (with "I think" obligatory)."
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Nigel Rees, Brewer's Quotations (London: Cassell, 1994) p. x., also quoted in Why Do We Quote by Ruth Finnegan (2011), pg. 241
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