Quotes About Discernment

My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)

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

Nobody over fifty has got any sense.

You should always pay attention to your instincts.

The things she said seemed to have very little relation to the last thing she had said a minute before. She was the sort of person, Tommy thought, who might know a great deal more than she chose to reveal.

He's not likely to recognize you. After all, one young man is much like another." "I repudiate that remark utterly. I'm sure my pleasing features and distinguished appearance would single me out from any crowd.

Not instinct, Hastings. Instinct is a bad word. It is my knowledge—my experience—that tells me that something about that letter is wrong—

In fact there is only your own instinct? Not instinct, Hastings. Instinct is a bad word. It is my knowledge-my experience-that tells me that something about that letter is wrong-

I do think you should be more careful how you choose your friends. You are so credulous, dear, so easily gulled. I suppose it is being a writer and having so much imagination. If you were older and had more experience of life you would have been on guard at once.

sagacity, for all his caution and astuteness, the old judge

Madame, the most kind, the most amiable are not always the cleverest.

Qué es importante y que no lo es? Nunca se puede decir. Hemos de fijarnos en los menores detalles.

Soy de esos que pueden oírlo todo." —Poirot

I have made it a habit," said Miss Marple. "To be careful?" "I should not put it exactly like that, but I have made a point of being always ready to disbelieve as well as believe anything that is told to me.

What do you expect Cust to tell you?" Hercule Poirot smiled. "A lie," he said. "And by it, I shall know the truth!

To separate the main issue from the side issues is the first task of the orderly mind.

Miss Marple is not the type of elderly lady who makes mistakes. She has got an uncanny knack of being always right.

often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalize. Generalizations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

Some day she will know how wise old men are.

Great mistake to say too much. Remember that. Never tell all you know — not even to the person you know best.

Miss Gannett has all the characteristics of my sister Caroline, but she lacks that unerring aim in jumping to conclusions which lends a touch of greatness to Caroline's manoeuvres.

But talk, however light, however idle, gives away, inevitably, the sort of person you are. The wise criminal would never open his mouth, but criminals are seldom wise and usually vain and they talk a good deal—and so most criminals are caught.

Well, none of you guessed,' said Jane. 'Except Miss Marple.' The worried expression returned to her face. 'Dolly, do you really think there are many like her?' 'Frankly, I don't,' said Mrs. Bantry.

Women can be fools in ninety-nine different ways but be pretty shrewd in the hundredth.