Quotes About Reflection

It is always a shock to meet again someone whom you have not seen for a long time but who has been very much present in your mind during that period.

As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.

How fast you go. You arrive at a conclusion much sooner than I would permit myself to do.

What can I say at seventy-five? "Thank God for my good life,and for all the love that has been given to me.

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

A diary is useful for recording the idiosyncrasies of other people—but not one's own.

people are never like what you remember them. You make them, as the years go by, more and more the way you wish them to be, and as you think you remember them. If you want to remember them as agreeable and gay and handsome, you make them far more so than they actually were.

What I wanted, frankly, was someone who would argue me out of the things that I was thinking.

One cannot, ever, go back to the place which exists in memory. you would not see it with the same eyes-even supposing that it should improbably have remained much the same. What you have had you have had. 'The happy highways where I went, And shall not come again...' Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.

That's where all the trouble in life comes from. Thinking.

Give up the past! Turn to the future! What is done is done. Bitterness will not undo it.

I love autumn. It's so much richer than spring.

I dare say it is good for one now and again to realize what an idiot one can be! But no one relishes the process.

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

A trifle, a little, the likeness of a dream. And death comes as the end.

To see ourselves as others see us!

A man travels fastest who travels alone.

those who have listened do not find it easy to talk; they keep their sorrows and joys to themselves and tell no one.

We think with horror now of the days when we burnt witches. I believe the day will come when we will shudder to think that we ever hanged criminals.

Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.

There is a proverb my grandmother used to repeat: Old sins have long shadows.

He was at the stage of a meal when one becomes philosophic.

I avoided my own friends and acquaintances, yet the loneliness of my existence was insupportable.

Six people were thinking of Rosemary Barton who had died nearly a year ago...