Ghost-Written Famous Quotations

David A. Daniel dad at POKERWIZ.COM
Sat Jun 30 12:15:35 UTC 2007


I don't know (a) if this is the sort of thing you are looking for, or (b)
old hat, but there is the famous "Anyone who hates dogs and babies can't be
all bad", usually attributed to W.C. Fields but actually said by Leo Rosten
about Fields at a Masquers' Club roast in Field's honor.

DAD




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Subject: Re: Ghost-Written Famous Quotations

How about many of the good lines attributed to Groucho Marx that were
written by the screenwriters?

m a m

On 6/21/07, Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> I am writing an article about famous quotations that were actually
> formulated by ghost-writers of one sort or another rather than by the
> person usually credited with them.  Examples would be speechwriters whose
> words are credited to politicians; actors who ad-libbed lines not included
> in the original screenplays; literary ghost-writers such as Robert Graves
> writing T. E. Lawrence's poem at the beginning of _Seven Pillars of
> Wisdom_; etc.  Can anyone suggest examples of such famous ghost-written
> quotations?
>
> Fred Shapiro
>
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