Quotes of Misunderstand - somelinesforyou

“ Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them. ”

- John Ruskin

“ I don't like her. But don't misunderstand me: my dislike is purely platonic. ”

- Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

“ If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will. ”

- Unknown

“ Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them. ”

- Tryon Edwards

“ It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot. ”

- Anatole France

“ To fear death is to misunderstand life. ”

- Unknown

“ To seek after beauty as an end, is a wild goose chase, a will-o'-the-wisp, because it is to misunderstand the very nature of beauty, which is the normal condition of a thing being as it should be. ”

- Ada Bethune

“ Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it? ”

- Anthony Hope

“ The last thing they want is a revitalized economy now. I'm not saying the Democrats don't want a strong economy. Don't misunderstand. They just don't want it now. ”

- Rush Limbaugh

“ The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off. ”

- Raymond Chandler
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