Quotes About Blunder

Alas, hoist with my own petard.

Jenny Casey, you've skewered the pooch this time.

Well, I'm the king of Foot in Mouth.

You've made a terrible mistake.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?

Time trouble is blunder time.

All terrible things are more terrible if they give us no chance of retrieving a blunder—either no chance at all, or only one that depends on our enemies and not ourselves. Those things are also worse which we cannot, or cannot easily, help. Speaking generally, anything causes us to feel fear that when it happens to, or threatens, others causes us to feel pity.

And a singularly consistent investigation you have made, my dear Watson," said he. "I cannot at the moment recall any possible blunder which you have omitted. The total effect of your proceeding has been to give the alarm everywhere and yet to discover nothing.

I cannot at the moment recall any possible blunder which you have omitted. From His Last Bow

Oh fuck. I shouldn't have said that.

I suddenly hear his voice again: Round-robin emails are the work of the devil. And I sent one out in his name. To the whole company. Without consulting him. Oh

Oh my God! I can't believe I did that!

Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument.

No man knows it when he is making an idiot of himself.

Some people have a perverse talent; they're capable of shooting themselves in the foot and stabbing themselves in the back at the exact same time.

Sometimes it turns out that we had missed a clue along the way, made a genuine mistake. Sometimes we turn out wrong despite doing everything right.

During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.

HEY, BOBBY TERRY, YOU SCROOOOWED IT UP!

Sometimes we just get it wrong.

To return to my blunder in group therapy, a veteran whose voice is often heard in this book turned black with anger and, glaring at me, said, "I won my war. It's you who fucking lost!" He got up and left the room to remove himself from the opportunity to physically hurt me. Toward the end of the group session he returned and said, "What we lost in Vietnam was some good fucking kids !

you were a genius and a fool. A genius for what you were capable of doing and a fool for what you did.

The Virginian made a number of critical errors that morning. His first was ordering his column forward with no skirmishers leading the way well to the front. Because he had no cavalry to screen his advance, Heth should have deployed these skirmishers to avoid stumbling into a fight at a disadvantage. This was a critical blunder because it meant that his column would grope blindly for the enemy as it marched along.

Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.