Quotes About Clarity

There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. - Hercule Poirot

This is no time for refusing to look facts in the face.

In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don't you?" "Of course I believe in the truth," said Rhoda, staring. "Yes, you say that, but perhaps you haven't thought about it. The truth hurts sometimes – and destroys one's illusions." "I'd rather have it all the same." said Rhoda. "So would I. But I don't know that we're wise.

You want beauty," said Hercule Poirot. "Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth I want. Always truth.

One's own troubles sharpen one's eyes sometimes.

My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)

Ah, mais c'est Anglais ca," he murmured, "everything in black and white, everything clear cut and well defined. But life, it is not like that, Mademoiselle. There are things that are not yet, but which cast their shadow before.

Sometimes one sees things clearly years afterwards than one could possibly at the time.

Everything is simple, if you arrange the facts methodically

The thing people don't seem to want anywhere nowadays...is anyone who's got a bit of ordinary common sense...but I often think that that's the only thing the world really needs-just a bit of common sense.

My sister continued: 'What did she die of? Heart failure?' 'Didn't the milkman tell you that?' I inquired sarcastically. Sarcasm is wasted on Caroline. She takes it seriously and answers accordingly. 'He didn't know,' she explained.

Things are simple as a rule

It's extraordinary, the amount of misunderstandings there are even between two people who discuss a thing quite often - both of them assuming different things and neither of them discovering the discrepancy.

The truth must be quite plain, if one could just clear away the litter.

The longer the time that has elapsed, the more things fall into proportion. One sees them in their true relationship to one another.

You weren't quite accurate just now." "I? Not accurate?" Poirot sounded affronted.

He did not know- he simply did not know. But he felt he ought to know.

I mean that if you are not absolutely sure of a thing, it is so difficult to commit yourself to a definite course of action.

É il cervello, le piccole cellule grigie» si batté una mano sulla fronte, «la cosa su cui bisogna basarsi. I sensi inducono in errore. Bisogna cercare la verità dal di dentro, non dal di fuori.»

If thing is as clear as daylight, mistrust it! someone has made it so!

So I suggest you cut the cackle and come to the horses.

And suddenly, with a terrific shock, with that feeling as of blurring on a cinematograph screen before the picture comes to focus, Hercule Poirot realized that this artificially set scene had a point of reality...

The great thing in these cases is to keep an absolutely open mind. Most crimes, you see, are so absurdly simple.