I have been misquoted everywhere, and the inaccuracies are chasing me round the world.

The line appears in a 1933 London Daily Herald interview/report about Shaw returning from travels. Shaw was complaining that a joking remark he made about Helen Keller had been distorted by reporters into an insult, and he used this sentence to express frustration at how widely and persistently such errors spread.

Shaw is saying that incorrect versions of his words circulate so broadly that they seem to follow him internationally, implying that once a misquote is published it propagates faster than he can correct it.

I tell you I have been misquoted everywhere, and the inaccuracies are chasing me round the world.