Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.

After all science is essentially international and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Happiness is an imaginary condition formerly attributed by the living to the dead now usually attributed by adults to children and by children to adults.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear but not that thing.

It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.

When you look at all the miracles attributed to Jesus they're all about change.

It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope that means 86% is dependent on raw talent fickle business cycles the quality of the product you're selling and often pure dumb luck.