Quotes About Wisdom

Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

You are a philosopher mademoiselle. This implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself from useless emotion.

That is the word of reality - need.

Once you've passed, say, fifty, comfort is the only thing that matters.

You have the clear brain. Yes, one cannot go back over the past. One must accept things as they are. And sometimes, Madame, that is all one can do—accept the consequences of one's past deeds.

One must seek the truth within – not without.

Oude zonden hebben lange schaduwen.

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.

I have had too much experience of life to believe in the infallibility of doctors. Some of them are clever men and some of them are not, and half the time the best of them don't know what is the matter with you. I have no truck with doctors and their medicines myself.

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.

Funerals are absolutely fatal for a man of your age.

Aunt Jane,' said Raymond, looking at her curiously, 'how do you do it? You have lived such a peaceful life and yet nothing seems to surprise you.' 'I always find one thing very like another in this world,' said Miss Marple.

sagacity, for all his caution and astuteness, the old judge

Tuppence had once laid upon him a serious injunction. ' If anybody over the age of sixty-five finds fault with you,' she said, 'never argue. Never try to say you're right. Apologize at once and say it was all your fault and you're very sorry and you'll never do it again.

the Japanese always ate half-cooked rice and had marvellous brains in consequence.

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

Eski günahlar?n gölgesi uzun olur

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

I have learned to save myself useless emotion

Madame, the most kind, the most amiable are not always the cleverest.

Why must it be simple?' ' Because it appears so complex. If it has necessarily to appear complex, it must be simple. You comprehend that?

wanted to know." "It's better not to know. It's better never to know. Better to leave things as they are. Not push and pry and poke." "You want beauty," said Hercule Poirot. "Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth I want. Always truth." Michael

Coge lo que quieras y paga por ello, dice Dios».

Pas encore. Qa m'amuse." "Really, Poirot!" "Yes, my friend. I grow old and childish, do I not?