mislead quotes

  One to mislead the public, another to mislead the Cabinet, and the third to mislead itself.

-Asquith
Of the three sets of figures kept by the War Office. Quoted in Alistair Horne Price of Glory (1962).

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

- Dorothy L(eigh) Sayers
  'The Psychology of Advertising', in The Spectator,19 Nov.