Quotes About Legacy

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

The memory of a good deed lives.

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.

One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.

The past is the father of the present.

I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.

But Aunt Maureen makes smashing omelettes." Julia Upjohn. "She makes smashing omelettes." Poirot's voice was happy. He sighed. "Then Hercule Poirot has not lived in vain, he said. It was I who taught your Aunt Maureen to make an omelette.

Death, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased... There is a great charity always to the dead.

There's a convention that one doesn't speak ill of the dead. That's stupid, I think. The truth's always the truth. On the whole it's better to keep your mouth shut about living people. You might conceivably injure them. The dead are past that. But the harm they've done lives after them sometimes.

There is a proverb my grandmother used to repeat: Old sins have long shadows.

Six people were thinking of Rosemary Barton who had died nearly a year ago...

The sons of rich men are proverbially wild.

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

If only father would be decent and die, I should be all right.

Discussions of death and such matters do more to unlock the human tongue than any other subject.

It is a grief to Sir Gervase, yes, that he has no son to inherit his name?

I think I said that every generation had its weaklings--that that was one of the penalties of greatness--but that their failings were seldom remembered by posterity.

Oude zonden hebben lange schaduwen.

Funerals are absolutely fatal for a man of your age.

Eski günahlar?n gölgesi uzun olur

Death, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased.

Los viejos pecados tienen largas sombras

But to everything that happens there has to be a past. A past which is by now incorporated in today, but which existed yesterday or last month or last year. The present is nearly always rooted in the past.

the world is full of the young – or even the middle-aged – who wait, patiently or impatiently, for the death of someone whose decease will give them if not affluence – then opportunity