Quotogeny
An atlas of quotations, traced to the page
Did they really say it? Quotogeny looks for a quote, word for word, in the full text of the works it is credited to. Each entry gives the verdict, the passage, who speaks it in the scene and the sources.
- Works no.
- 004 of 31
- Status
- Live
- Work began
- 20 Oct 2026
- Where
- quotogeny.com
- Made by
- Laurens van Riel, 42workspace, Rotterdam
In numbers
- 378quotes traced
- 36people
- 4verdicts
What is inside
- Four verdicts: genuine, paraphrase, misattributed or not found
- Paste a quote you saw and get the verdict and the real passage
- The original text, a translation, the scene and the speaker, and how a line is usually misread
How it is built
A React app over the public-domain texts it searches. Research runs on a queue; a program checks every passage against its source before it is published.
Quotes are classified by the choices they are made of (theme, claim, figure, voice, stance, tone, shape, use), the way Stylogeny classifies styles.