Quotes About Understanding

Faces are tricky unless you can connect up when and where you'd seen them.

Meanwhile we have learnt something, and to know is to be prepared.

There is no such thing as a plain fact of murder. Murder springs, nine times out of ten, out of the character and circumstances of the murdered person. Because the victim was the kind of person he or she was, therefore was he or she murdered! Until we can understand fully and completely exactly what kind of a person [she] was, we shall not be able to see clearly exactly the kind of person who murdered her. From that spring the necessity of our questions.

A secret de Polichinelle is a secret that everyone can know. For this reason the people who do not know it never hear about it - for if everyone thinks you know a thing, nobody tells you.

She was a very good, kind woman. I could not have continued to live in the same house with her, but I did recognize her intrinsic worth.

It can happen that if anyone is talking to a person they know cannot see well, they are careless. They permit themselves an expression of face that on other occasions they would not allow.

A woman would know all right about her own husband.

What I think is a different matter. Maybe I think some rather curious things—but until thinking's got you somewhere it's no use talking about it.

Marriage is an extraordinary thing—and I doubt if any outsider—even a child of the marriage—has the right to judge.

I should like to knock their silly heads together. What is the sense of laughing all the time? They are not saying anything funny.

But, mind you, very few people would understand that point of view. Most people, you see, haven't got any imagination

It's often when you're talking over things that you seem to see your way clear. Your mind gets made up for you sometimes without your knowing how it's happened. Talking leads to a lot of things one way or another.

What's wrong with Shakespeare?" I{Jerry} inquired in interest. " Twisting himself up to say things in such a difficult way that you can't get at what he means. Still, I like some Shakespeare.

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.

She was an expert in the exact amount of condolence which would be acceptable.

Everybody always knows something," said Adam. "Even if it's something they don't know they know.

I wonder if husbands know as much about their wives as they think they do. If I had a husband, I should hate him to bring home orphans without consulting me first.

Oh, the glorious relief, the wonderful relief when somebody knows what's in your mind and tells it to you so that you are at last released from that long bondage of silence.

Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

Young people belong to their generation. We may think they're unwise in many of their doings, but we have to accept their decisions.

He takes everything seriously. That is what makes him so difficult to live with.

what is often called an intuition is really an impression based on logical deduction or experience.

They were silent with the comfortable silence of two people who know each other very well indeed.

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