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Quotes About Misunderstanding

You confuse not speaking with not listening.
~ Gregory Maguire
Melanie. From what I understand, you were
~ Gretta Mulrooney
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.
~ Groucho Marx
I've had a wonderful evening - but this wasn't it.
~ Groucho Marx
Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
~ Groucho Marx
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.
~ Groucho Marx
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
~ Groucho Marx
Et puis, vous savez très bien que le succès repose sur un malentendu.
~ Guillaume Musso
Tu ne vas pas me faire croire que tu sais allumer un feu de cheminée? s'amusa Billie. — Bien sûr que si ! répondis-je vexé. — Très bien, vas-y, homme, je te regarde avec mes yeux admiratifs de femme soumise.
~ Guillaume Musso
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
~ Guy Davenport
Quelques secondes plus tard, son père entendit le bruit d'une porte qui se refermait, mais ce n'était pas un claquement de colère : c'était plutôt la séparation que l'on met volontairement, et sans heurt, entre soi-même et ceux que l'on ne parvient plus à comprendre.
~ Guy des Cars
humans tend to blame cats for things that aren't really the cat's fault.
~ Gwen Cooper
Plantearse el problema del crimen organizado y de su arraigo en Tierra Caliente como un asunto de buenos contra malos fue uno de los errores del gobierno de Felipe Calderón. Vistos desde afuera, sin un conocimiento de la zona y de su historia, todos los habitantes de la región podían entrar en la definición de malos.
~ Héctor Aguilar Camín
He loved the stuff. But unfortunately he couldn't say "Propamidine." In fact nobody on the entire establishment could say it except Charlie the farm foreman and he only thought he could say it. He called it "Propopamide" but his lordship had the utmost faith in him.
~ James Herriot
The thing about marriage is, you end up marrying the one you don't understand. Then you spend the rest of your life trying to.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
It's something simple to be loved. And go unloved, for being misunderstood.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Sometimes your hearing was wrong. Because 'I love you' was what it was. But you never heard.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Does nobody understand?
~ James Joyce
Pantolon için, elden düÅŸme deÄŸil)... götten düÅŸme denmesi laz?m.
~ James Joyce
He read the verses backwards but then they were not poetry.
~ James Joyce
To say that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic merit, is no better than to say he is rheumatic or diabetic.
~ James Joyce
and, as a matter of fict, by my halfwife, (...)
~ James Joyce
He doesn't know what he's saying. Taking a little more than is good for him. Absinthe, the greeneyed monster. I know him. He's a gentleman, a poet. It's alright.
~ James Joyce
You phonio saxo?
~ James Joyce