Blunders

Examples

• He always admitted his blunders, and extenuated those of officers under him beyond what they were entitled to. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• For there are, I believe, blunders in our political thinking which confuse fictitious activity with genuine achievement, and make it difficult for men to know where they should enlist. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I was not endowed either with brains or with good fortune, and confess that I have committed a hundred mistakes and blunders. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• HE would get on well enough if she'd let him alone; they like his slang and his brag and his blunders. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• In common conversation he seems to have no choice of words; he hesitates and blunders; and yet, good God, how he writes! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I would rather abide by my own blunders than by his. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• To make it an avowed ideal--a thing of will and intelligence--is to hasten its coming, to illumine its blunders, and, by giving it self-criticism, to convert mistakes into wisdom. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Guess again, Robert; your blunders are charming. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• You have made two blunders in as many minutes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Imagine the shock; imagine how, till I had actually detected my own blunder, I raved at the blunders of the post. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The blunders, the blindness of her own head and heart! Jane Austen. Emma.
• He made a hundred blunders and showed his ignorance many a time. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It was through a series of strange blunders! Jane Austen. Emma.
• Your blunders and misfortunes may have been a sorrow to you, but they have been a wrong to me. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

Edited by Estelle