Misleading Language Quotes

Do not be deceived by the way men of bad faith misuse words and names…. Beware of those who use words to mean their opposites. At the same time have pity on them, for usually this trick is their only stock in trade.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

terminological inexactitude

When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to such arcane spellings as 'lede.' Where they lede, do not follow.

Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean.

The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.

It's the great deception in modern culture: Bad things call for noble names to cloak their evil outcomes.

Before signing any contract, you have to assume that the guy on the other side of the desk is handing you a shifty piece of paper that works to his advantage. I know that sounds cynical, but it's really that simple.

Words can be used for venal purposes. Words are incredible sources of propaganda and can cause terrible havoc.

I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace.

When it comes to scientific matters the ready talkers simply run riot. There are a lot of pseudo-scientists who with a little technical jargon to spatter through their talk are always getting in the limelight

Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.

The language that we use now impacts on the ability to vote, it impacts on the marketplace; instead of making things clear, it makes it more confusing. I think we need to stop using neutral language and speak in straighter terms. So when you agree to something, you actually get what you agreed to in the first place.

For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.

I used the dictionary very minimally and I just wrote how I speak. And I speak very hateful manner usually. I constantly did that because I think the fans would get more out of it if they understood exactly what I'm saying - exactly where I'm coming from.

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses remedies.

Unfaithful to their meanings, words perturb our perturb our powers of reason ... the only safe words are our words.

Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to ideas that, if stated directly, would seem superficial, stale, frivolous, or false. The line between serious and spurious scholarship is an easy one to blur, with jargon on your side.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

There is no language without deceit.

For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.