Quotes About Vulnerability

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction

How absurd to call youth the time of happiness - youth, the time of greatest vulnerability! - Hercule Poirot in Death on the Nile

Conversations are always dangerous, if you have something to hide.

Mademoiselle, I beseech you, do not do what you are doing." "Leave dear Linnet alone, you mean!" "It is deeper than that. Do not open your heart to evil." Her lips fell apart; a look of bewilderment came into her eyes. Poirot went on gravely: "Because—if you do—evil will come…Yes, very surely evil will come…It will enter in and make its home within you, and after a little while it will no longer be possible to drive it out.

A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man. (Inspector Miller)

Because when you're in love, you think you're invincible. It blinds you. And you don't seem to care.

Maybe it is because I am an old man, but I find, M. Poirot, that there is something about the defenselessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless - so sure. So generous and so demanding.

I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there.

There is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless--so sure. So generous and so demanding.

Ladies tell their nurses things in a sudden burst of confidence, and then, afterwards, they feel uncomfortable about it and wish they hadn't! It's only human nature.

once a weak person gets really frightened, they get quite savage with terror and they've no self-control at all.

Who was there to guard youth from pain and death - youth who could not, who had never been able to, guard itself? Did they know too little? Or was it that they knew too much, and therefore thought they knew it all?

How absurd to call youth the time of happiness—youth, the time of greatest vulnerability!

They knew, none better, the havoc caused by a good-looking young man to the hearts of adolescent girls.

Maybe it is because I am an old man, but I find, Mr. Poirot, that there is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless—so sure. So generous and so demanding.

There is nothing so dangerous for any one who has something to hide as conversation!

Pride comes in handy for masking one's feelings?it doesn't stop you from feeling them

Qué absurdo llamar a la juventud el tiempo de la felicidad! ¡La juventud es la edad de mayor vulnerabilidad!" (Muerte en el Nilo)

Does nothing frighten you, Anne Beddingfeld?" "Oh, yes," I said, with an assumption of coolness I was far from feeling. "Wasps, sarcastic women, very young men, cockroaches, and superior shop assistants.

How can you and I set about preventing a murder? You're about a hundred and I'm a broken-up old crock.

Child's evidence is always the best evidence there is. I'd rely on it every time. No good in court, of course. Children can't stand being asked direct questions. They mumble or else look idiotic and say they don't know. They're at their best when they're showing off.

Ungdomen är hård, ungdomen är stark, ungdomen är mäktig – ja, och grym! Och en sak till – ungdomen är sårbar.

Dead? Dead? That young Norse God in the prime of his health and strength. Struck down all in a moment. Healthy young men didn't die like that, choking over a whiskey and soda...