Who is the most quotable person in history?

Wits, statesmen and a baseball catcher who never set out to be profound. Half the lines credited to these people were never said by any of them.

1

Oscar Wilde

Wrote plays around his own epigrams and got away with it.

1000pts

2

Mark Twain

Attributed with more aphorisms than he actually wrote, which is its own kind of fame.

982pts

3

Mahatma Gandhi

Short, plain sentences that survive translation into every language.

538pts

4

Muhammad Ali

Wrote his own press coverage out loud, in rhyme, before the fights.

538pts

5

Benjamin Franklin

Filled an almanac with proverbs and signed them with someone else's name.

538pts

6

Maya Angelou

Lines about how people make you feel now outlive the poems they came from.

538pts

7

Dorothy Parker

The sharpest voice at the Algonquin Round Table, and the most repeated.

440pts

8

Abraham Lincoln

Gettysburg aside, he wrote letters that read like they were built to be carved.

440pts

9

Groucho Marx

Delivered lines so tight they work in print without the eyebrows.

440pts

10

Albert Einstein

The world's default source for any sentence that sounds wise about imagination.

323pts

11

William Shakespeare

Supplied English with more standing phrases than any other single writer.

323pts

12

Winston Churchill

So quotable that dictionaries of quotations now carry warnings about lines wrongly credited to him.

179pts

13

Confucius

The oldest name in the quotation business, and still the most misattributed.

179pts