"Misinform" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... really wanted to know, he said subsequently, that was the authority to go to. He himself would probably misinform them altogether. ...
— The White Feather • P. G. Wodehouse
... her round about. If, therefore, they do not that work so fast as we would have them, let us exercise patience and hope in God. 'Tis a wonder they go as fast as they do since the concerns of whole kingdoms lie upon their shoulders, and there are so many Sanballats and Tobias's to flatter them and misinform them. Let the King have visibly a place in your hearts, and with heart and mouth give God thanks for him. He is a better Saviour of us than we may be aware of, and hath delivered us from more deaths than we can tell how to think. We are bidden to give God thanks for all men, and in the ...
— Bunyan • James Anthony Froude
... gauge this gentleman, For silence wise is oft misunderstood; Behind it Wisdom, hidden, may abide, Of Folly it may make her secret home. Of import weighty is the post he holds, But from it we must shrewdly pry him out, For he may Francos slyly misinform And so delay fruition of our hopes. (Claps his hands; enter muchacho.) Muchacho: What wouldst thou, sir; mine ears did hear the call, So quick I haste with "Scotch and soda" primed. Quezox: Go to, thou vermin, ...
— 'A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts • Spokeshave (AKA Old Fogy)
... the same when we consider his attitude toward the decisions and actions of other men. By mere willing he cannot condition another's choice. But by willing he can often influence indirectly the volitions of his fellows. He can enlighten or misinform, persuade or threaten, reward or punish. In many ways he can weight the scale of his neighbor's mind. But such influences are not all-powerful, and only within limits can we bend other wills to follow a course prescribed ...
— A Handbook of Ethical Theory • George Stuart Fullerton
... this gentleman, For silence wise is oft misunderstood; Behind it Wisdom, hidden, may abide, Of Folly it may make her secret home. Of import weighty is the post he holds, But from it we must shrewdly pry him out, For he may Francos slyly misinform And so delay fruition of our hopes. (Claps his hands; enter muchacho.) Muchacho: What wouldst thou, sir; mine ears did hear the call, So quick I haste with "Scotch and soda" primed. Quezox: Go ...
— 'A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts • Spokeshave (AKA Old Fogy) |
