Editing Quotation (section)

===Misquotations===
{{Further|False attribution|Straw man}}
{{See also|List of movie misquotes}}
Many quotations are routinely incorrect or attributed to the wrong authors, and quotations from obscure or unknown writers are often attributed to far more famous writers. Examples of this are [[Winston Churchill]], to whom many political quotations of uncertain origin are attributed, and [[Oscar Wilde]], to whom anonymous humorous quotations are sometimes attributed.<ref>See ''A Book of Misquotations'', edited by Elizabeth Knowles, Oxford University Press, 2006.</ref>

Some quotations commonly believed to be quotations from literature, film, etc. do not actually appear in the source material, but are paraphrases of phrases that do. The ''Star Trek'' catchphrase "[[Beam me up, Scotty]]" did not appear in that form in the original series. Other misquotations include "[[Just the facts, ma'am]]" (attributed to [[Jack Webb]]'s character of [[Joe Friday]] on ''[[Dragnet (series)|Dragnet]]''), "Heavy lies the crown" from Shakespeare's Play [[Henry IV, Part 2]], "[[Sherlock Holmes#"Elementary, my dear Watson"|Elementary, my dear Watson]]" (attributed to [[Sherlock Holmes]]; it was, however, said in the films ''[[The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]]'' and ''[[The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1929 film)|The Return of Sherlock Holmes]]''), "[[Luke, I am your father]]" (attributed to [[Darth Vader]] in [[Star Wars]]), "[[Casablanca (film)#Inaccuracies and a misquote|Play it again, Sam]]" (attributed to Ilsa in ''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]''), "[[Do you feel lucky, punk?]]" (attributed to [[Dirty Harry (character)|Harry Callahan]] in ''[[Dirty Harry]]'') and "[[Stinking badges|We don't need no stinkin' badges!]]" (attributed to Gold Hat in ''[[The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film)|The Treasure of the Sierra Madre]]'').<ref>The Holmes phrase originated in a radio play. See [[q:List of misquotations|List of misquotations]] and [http://www.snopes.com/quotes/signature/elementary.asp "Elementary, My Dear Watson"] at Snopes.com</ref><ref>Webb ''did'' say: "All we want are the facts ma'am". See [[Just the facts, ma'am]], [[q:List of misquotations|List of misquotations]] and [http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/dragnet.asp "Just the Facts"] at Snopes.com</ref><ref>[http://www.filmsite.org/moments02.html Greatest Film Misquotes - Part 2], Tim Dirks at filmsite.org</ref><ref>{{YouTube|nsdZKCh6RsU|We Dont Need No Stinkin Badges!}} although the last of these is spoken by one of the Mexican Bandits that Hedley Lamarr attempts to hire as mercenaries in ''Blazing Saddles''</ref>