Quotes About Simplicity

The words of truth are simple.

Every man should be content to mind his own business.

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so.

Everything is simple, if you arrange the facts methodically

The thing people don't seem to want anywhere nowadays...is anyone who's got a bit of ordinary common sense...but I often think that that's the only thing the world really needs-just a bit of common sense.

Nobody understands the art of living nowadays,... Catching trains, making appointments, fixing times for everything—all nonsense. Get up with the sun I say, have your meals when you feel like it, and never tie yourself to a time or a date. I could teach people how to live if they would listen to me.

It's awfully easy to appear silly, Mr. Clement. It's one of the easiest things in the world.

Things are simple as a rule

The truth must be quite plain, if one could just clear away the litter.

Long walks are off, and alas, bathing in the sea; fillet steaks and apples and raw blackberries (teeth difficulties) and reading fine print. But there is a great deal left. Operas and concerts, and reading, and the enormous pleasure of dropping into bed and going to sleep, and dreams of every variety. Almost best of all, sitting in the sun--gently drowsing and there you are again--remembering. I remember, I remember, the house where I was born....

So I suggest you cut the cackle and come to the horses.

The great thing in these cases is to keep an absolutely open mind. Most crimes, you see, are so absurdly simple.

Nice looking young lady, but the ordinary kind, not glamourous, no Hollywood touch about her.

All you need is a chair and a table and a typewriter and a bit of peace

The case was not quite satisfactory to me. All along I was strongly under the impression that we were dealing with a cold-blooded and premeditated crime committed by someone who had contented themselves (very cleverly) with using Monsieur Renauld's own plans for throwing the police off the track. The great criminal (as you may remember my remarking to you once) is always supremely simple." -- Hercule Poirot

I was glad I had been brilliant, but I did not want to think of anything complex. I wanted to go to sleep.

Why must it be simple?' ' Because it appears so complex. If it has necessarily to appear complex, it must be simple. You comprehend that?

Imagination is a good servant and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Being unspoiled and natural. You learn how to do it, and then you have to go on being it all the time. Just think of the hell of it—never to be able to chuck something, and say, 'Oh, for the Lord's sake stop bothering me.

I have been wondering—whether it might perhaps be all much simpler than we suppose. Murders so often are quite simple—with an obvious rather sordid motive….

Os tolos compram coisas que morrem nas primeiras geadas e aí desejam ter ficado com os girassóis e os bem-me-queres!

Date troppo corda alla fantasia. La fantasia è un'ottima serva, ma una pessima padrona. La spiegazione più semplice quasi sempre si rivela esatta.