Attributed to Mother Teresa · No speech, letter or book of hers has been found for it; Wikiquote moved it to its unsourced list, and the earliest print found this run is a 1997 Sri Chinmoy book about her.
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Rhett Butler · Clark Gable's blockade runner in Gone with the Wind (1939) · Rhett to Scarlett in the Paris bonnet scene, a line written for the film by Sidney Howard and not found in the novel.
Albert Einstein · From a 1940 draft letter to his friend the physicist Philipp Frank; the shared "Love is a better teacher than duty" is a shortening, and the bracketed gloss is the editor's.
Attributed to Oscar Wilde · Recorded by Harold Mellor, a friend who travelled with Wilde in 1898 to 1900, and printed only in 1949 in the Marquess of Queensberry's Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas; Quote Investigator finds it plausible but resting on one man's memory half a century on.
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