Misquotations

"Lies, damned lies and statistics"

"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."

"Mate, how does it feel to have dropped the World Cup?"

"Because it's there"

"It's a funny old game"

"Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely."

""Beam me up, Scotty" – James T. Kirk"

""Damn it, Jim! I'm a doctor, not a..." – Leonard McCoy"

""All that glistens is not gold" / "All that glitters is not gold" – William Shakespeare"

""Blood, Sweat, and Tears" – Winston Churchill"

"God helps those who help themselves."

"Lead on, Macduff"

"Bubble bubble, toil and trouble."

"Methinks the lady doth protest too much"

"Money is the root of all evil."

"Now is the winter of our discontent."

"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him well."

"Play it again, Sam"

"I'm ready for my close-up, Mr DeMille"

"Greed is good"

"Someone set us up the bomb"

"The rest is science"

"To gild the lily"

"Why don't you come up and see me sometime?"

""I am not a crook" – Richard Nixon"

"You dirty rat!"

"The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash."

"A language is a dialect with a navy."

""The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality", or a variation on that."

""A damn close run thing" – Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington, referring to his victory over Napoleon at Waterloo."

""Do you feel lucky, punk?" – Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry"

"Whenever I hear the word 'culture' I reach for my revolver."

"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"

"Don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes."

"Houston, we have a problem"

""Kismet Hardy / Kiss me, Hardy" – British Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson"

""The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" – Edmund Burke"

""We don't need no steenking badges!" – Bandit in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"

"Spare the rod, spoil the child"

""Crisis? What crisis?" – British Prime Minister James Callaghan"

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

"Preach the Gospel always, and if necessary, use words."

"Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains."

"I woke up this mornin' and I got myself a beer."

"Hold you in his armchair, you can feel his disease."

"Let them eat cake."

"You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!"

"Hello, Clarice."

"Well, here's another fine mess you've gotten me into"