About

Quotations you can trust — and cite.

The internet is full of quotes attributed to famous people who never said them. QuoteQuest helps students, teachers and researchers find quotations together with their original source, the context in which they were spoken or written, and an honest assessment of whether the attribution holds up.

Verification statuses

Verified

Wording confirmed against a primary source.

Attributed

Recorded by a reliable secondary source; exact wording may differ.

Disputed

Authenticity or wording is questioned by historians.

Misattributed

No evidence the named person said or wrote this.

Our approach

• Every record links to the archive, library or publisher that holds the source.
• We record provenance — where the quotation was checked and how.
• We prefer a smaller collection of well-sourced quotes over a large unverified one.
• Misattributed quotes are kept and labelled, so you can learn what's really behind them.