Quotes About Perspective

Two people rarely see the same thing.

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

Death was for-the other people.

I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.

fiction is founded on truth... unless things did happen, people couldn't think of them.

the truth is never horrible, only interesting.

Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple

My friend, in working upon a case, one does not take into account only the things that are "mentioned". There is no reason to mention many things which may be important. Equally, there is often an excellent reason for not mentioning them.

Sanity is the one unbelievable bore. One must be mad, slightly twisted - then one sees life from a new and entrancing angle.

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

It is completely unimportant," said Poirot. "That is why it is so interesting," he added softly.

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.

I believe the present matters --- not the past! The past muust go. If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it. We see it in exaggerated terms --- a false perspective. - Hilda Lee

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

To say a man does mad things because he is mad is merely unintelligent and stupid. A madman is as logical and reasoned in his action as a sane man--given his peculiar biased point of view. For example, if a man insists on going out and squatting about in nothing but a loin cloth his conduct seems eccentric in the extreme. But once you know that the man himself is firmly convinced that he is Mahatma Gandhi, then his conduct becomes perfectly reasonable and logical.

To see ourselves as others see us!

In the midst of tragedy we start the comedy.

I suppose, like most young people nowadays, boredom is what you dread most in the world, and yet, I can assure you, there are worse things.

You do think you know about everything," said her husband. I do," said Tuppence.

Why harrow oneself by looking on the worst side?... Because it is sometimes necessary.

Anybody who can belive six impossible things before breakfast wins hands down in this game.

She used to say:"The young people think the old people are fools, but the old people KNOW the young people are fools!