Quotes About Advice

Better to be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

A man should either not converse with kings at all, or say what is agreeable to them.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Mademoiselle, I speak as a friend. Bury your dead! ... Give up the past! Turn to the future! What is done is done. Bitterness will not undo it.' 'I'm sure that would suit dear Linnet admirably.' Poirot made a gesture. 'I am not thinking of her at this moment! I am thinking of you. You have suffered - yes - but what you are doing now will only prolong the suffering.

You don't appreciate a faithful husband when you've got one,' said Tommy. 'All my friends tell me you never know with husbands,' said Tuppance. 'You have the wrong kind of friends,' said Tommy.

The great merit of being a doctor," said Sir Bartholomew, "is that you are not obliged to follow your own advice.

Every woman should make one mistake matrimonially. - Alex Restarick

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

We established ourselves on the grassy knoll as Poirot had suggested,

We passed a very pleasant evening, though I made the slight mistake of taking Poirot to a crook play. There is one piece of advice I offer to all my readers. Never take a soldier to a military play, a sailor to a naval play, a Scotsman to a Scottish play, a detective to a thriller -- and an actor to any play whatsoever! The shower of destructive criticism in each case is somewhat devastating.

But there are three people, madame, to whom a woman should speak the truth. To her Father Confessor, to her hairdresser and to her private detective – if she trusts him.

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.

Oh, I leave it to your imagination, Mr. Latimer. I would not presume to give you advice, you know. The advice of such elderly fogeys as myself is invariably treated with scorn. Rightly so, perhaps, who knows? But we old buffers like to think that experience has taught us something. We have noticed a good deal, you know, in the course of a lifetime." A

Ele disse: 'A vida não pode realmente ser resolvida por máximas admiráveis tiradas da literatura moderna. Lembre-se de que a natureza tem os dentes e as garras rubros.

Un buen consejo siempre será ignorado, pero eso no es motivo para no darlo.

I will give you my valuable advice. You needn't take it. People seldom do take advice, but you might as well have it.

Of course I could give you advice, Jean, though I don't know why anyone ever wants advice. They never take it.

Everyone has an idea of what you need to do with your life. Only you have the facts of what you really need to do.

If you can't be a good example, At least be a horrible warning.

All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.

And finally Nell: British, cool, eschewing the books and the expert advice. So trust-your-instincts. So I-really-shouldn't. (I really shouldn't have that chocolate-chip muffin. Those chips. That third gin and tonic.) But there was something else about Nell, something below the salty exterior I spotted from day one: she, like me, was a woman with a secret.

When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.