Understand

Famous quotes containing the word understand:

“I like his holiness very much, particularly since an order, which I understand he has lately given, that no more miracles shall be performed.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.”
—Jean Rostand (1894–1977)

“Jean Jacques Rousseau ... is nothing but a fool in my eyes when he takes it upon himself to criticise society; he did not understand it, and approached it with the heart of an upstart flunkey.... For all his preaching a Republic and the overthrow of monarchical titles, the upstart is mad with joy if a Duke alters the course of his after-dinner stroll to accompany one of his friends.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)