Quotes About Caution

Never part with information unnecessarily. That's my rule,

No," said Miss Marple. "You believed what he said. It really is very dangerous to believe people. I never have for years.

In my opinion half the people who spend their lives avoiding being run over by buses had much better be run over and put safely out of the way. They're no good.

But I always find it prudent to suspect everybody just a little. What I say is, you really never know, do you?

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

It's very dangerous to believe people, I haven't for years.

I mean that success has come early. And that is dangerous. Always dangerous.

Mr Rycroft said nothing. It was so difficult not to say the wrong thing to Captain Wyatt that it was usually safer not to reply at all.

mediocre amount of intelligence is sometimes most dangerous. It does not take one far enough.

One does not like to make definite assertions unless one has a little more definite knowledge.

DON'T EAT NONE OF THE PLUM PUDDING. ONE WHO WISHES YOU WELL.

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

If you people only knew how fatally easy it is to poison someone by mistake, you wouldn't joke about it.

I should hope so. But, my dear, I do beg of you to guard your tongue and be careful of what you say. These women are singularly deficient in humour, remember, and take everything seriously.

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

I should hardly advise you to go too much by all I've told you. I'm a malicious creature.

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.

If you people only knew how fatally easy it is to poison someone by mistake, you wouldn't joke about it." -- Cynthia Murdoch

the maxim, 'If you want a thing done safely, do not do it yourself!

You should never believe anything anyone said without first checking it. Suspect everybody, had been for many years, if not his whole life, one of his first axioms.

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

The wise man does not commit himself. Is not that so?

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