misunderstood quotes

Le pire drame pour un poe'  te, c'est d'e"  tre admire   par malentendu. The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

-Jean Cocteau
  Le Coq et l'Arlequin.

   To be great is to be misunderstood.

- RalphWaldo Emerson
Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.

Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumblewithgreatcoherence† If Iseemundulyclear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

- Alan Greenspan
  Address to Congress, Sep. Quotedby Jonathan Marshall in the San Francisco Chronicle, 9  Jun1995.

If I had known I would be so universally misunderstood, maybe I wouldn't have been so rebellious and outspoken.

-Madonna full name Madonna LouiseVeronica Ciccone
Quoted in the Guinness Rockopedia (1998).

The Falklands held a mirror up to our own islands, and it reflected, in brilliantly sharp focus, all our injured belittlement, our sense of being beleaguered, neglected and misunderstood.

-Jonathan Raban
  Coasting, ch.3.