Quote Investigator



Quote Investigator (QI) is an American blog written by Gregory F. Sullivan under the pseudonym of Garson O'Toole (which he apparently prefers to be cited under for his quotation work). O'Toole has also written Hemingway Didn't Say That, a book examining famous misquotations; it is based on work published at Quote Investigator. He is also a major contributor to The Yale Book of Quotations.

As his blog's name suggests, he uses it to document his investigations into the origins of various quotations. QI contains over 1,300 such entries. It can often be a useful source when examining or citing popular quotes in general that could be contentious, or even the true source of misattributed, banal truisms; though as we all know, the Internet never misquotes anyone. Popular quote-aggregator sites like Goodreads or Brainyquote would never!