Quotes About Truth

How often is tittle tattle, as you call it, true! And I think if, as I say, they really examined the facts they would find that it was true nine times out of ten! That's really just what makes people so annoyed about it.

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to the seeker after it.

No," said Tuppence thoughtfully, "he didn't believe it. That's the curious part about speaking the truth. No one does believe it.

So, if I lost all my money, you'd drop me tomorrow?' 'Yes, darling, I would. You can't say I'm not honest about it! I only like successful people. And you'll find that's true of nearly everybody - only most people won't admit it. They just say that really they "can't put up with Mary or Emily or Pamela any more! Her troubles have made her so bitter and peculiar, poor dear!

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

Always the facts must be twisted to fit the theory!

One should never go by what people say.

Poirot said "you will find,M.le docteur,if you have much to do with cases of this kind,that they all resemble each other in one thing." "what is that?" I asked curiously "everyone concerned in them has something to hide

She was quite a kindly woman. What she said at the last in the kitchen was quite true. 'I didn't want to kill anybody.' What she wanted was a great deal of money that didn't belong to her! And before that desire—(and it had become a kind of obsession—the money was to pay her back for all the suffering life had inflicted on her)—everything else went to the wall.

Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined—sifted.

That is the word of reality - need.

It is curious—but you cannot make a revolution without honest men.

The evidence of history is against you. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. It is a question of getting the true perspective, of seeing things in proportion.

It is so unkind--' 'Perhaps. But sometimes a compulsion comes over one to speak the truth!

One must seek the truth within – not without.

That's all right then. But a lot of people do tell lies.' I accepted this undeniable statement of fact in silence.

Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts.

Oh, you may smile, Mr. Quin, but you cannot deny what I am saying." "I deny nothing. In what you see you are always right. And yet—" "Yet what?" Mr. Quin leaned forward. His dark melancholy eyes searched for those of Mr. Satterthwaite. "Have you learned so little of life?" he breathed.

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.

Miss Williams said: "I see now why you said that it might be better if she had never known. All the same, I

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

But if I am right," thought Poirot, "and after all, it is natural to me to be right

Io non sono brava come voi, Monsieur Poirot. Metà delle cose che mi avete detto mi sembravano fatti sconclusionati e senza senso. Anche a me erano venute delle idee, ma da un angolo completamente diverso..." "Ah, ma è sempre così", disse Poirot senza scomporsi. "Uno specchio mostra a tutti la stessa verità, ma ognuno la vede da angoli diversi, a seconda della posizione che ha rispetto a esso.

Interrogo-me muitas vezes porque motivo tem o mundo uma tendência tão grande para generalizar. As generalizações raramente ou quase nunca são verdadeiras e são muitas vezes totalmente inexactas.