Quotes About Misunderstanding

My dear Boris, can you not take a joke?" "Was it a joke?

Tommy, why did they put Maldon Surrey on the telegram?" "Because Maldon is in Surrey, idiot.

I'm not very good at telling things. I mean if I write things, I get them perfectly clear, but if I talk, it always sounds the most frightful muddle.

Oh, you still don't understand,' he said impatiently. 'I've fallen in love with her, and I'd like you to give me a divorce as soon as it can be arranged.' I suppose, with those words, that part of my life–my happy, successful confident life–ended. It was not as quick as that, of course–because I couldn't believe

I know, Hastings—I know. The spoken word and the written—there is an astonishing gulf between them. There is a way of turning sentences that completely reverses the original meaning.

That's different. She's a woman, and women act in that silly way. I'm not saying she did it for a moment. She heard he was accused and she trumped up a story. I'm used to that sort of game. You wouldn't believe the fool things I've known women do.

I think you're both behaving like a pair of idiots.

In a minute, dear,' said Miss Marple. 'I'm afraid I have counted wrong. Two purl, three plain, slip one, two purl—yes, that's right. What did you say, dear?' 'What is your opinion?' 'You wouldn't like my opinion, dear. Young people never do, I notice. It is better to say nothing.

Heart failure may always be translated as the inability of the local GP to discover what his patient really did die of...

pero en el amor era espantosamente unilateral. Porque ella sentía una pasión profunda y avasalladora por Amyas Crale, dio por sentado que él abrigaría los mismos sentimientos hacia ella. Dio por sentado que su enamoramiento sería eterno.

What is it? You are not attending to what I say." "It is true, my friend. I am much worried." "Why?" "Because Mademoiselle Cynthia does not take sugar in her coffee.

There's a general belief that athletes aren't overburdened by brains (not at all true by the way), but I can't believe Nevile Strange is a complete moron.

Do you not know, my friend, that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desires and aptitudes? Mais oui, c'est vrai. One makes one's little judgments—but nine times out of ten one is wrong.

That's right," said Mrs. Oliver in an exasperated voice, "blame it all on me as usual!

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

Wonder 'do we - by the same words - mean the same things?

A woman gets into a relationship hoping to change the man. A man gets into a relationship hoping that the woman doesn't change. Both realize how gravely mistaken they are

The only accidents I know of are incidents that have been subjected to a serious case of mislabeling

But no matter, because we as a nation now take every tweet, every offhanded Facebook comment, or shotgun aside as the gospel truth of a person's sense of the world, when in reality most are typed late at night when people are intoxicated or sleep-deprived or just got in a terrible fight with their spouse.

There are sometimes such human beings among film critics—the things they say they see are so far off the beam that you would think they were possessed by some kind of demon. I suppose nothing can be done about critics, but we can't have such people among film directors.

Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.

Not being truly engaged with the people we're trying to communicate with, and then suffering the snags of misunderstanding, is the grit in the gears of daily life.

Three hard of hearing guys are at a street corner. The first one says, 'Brrrr, it's windy!' The second one says, 'No, it's Thursday.' The third one says, 'Me too, let's get a drink.

I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.