Quotes About Perspective

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.

Every new development that arises is like the shake you give to a kaleidoscope—the thing changes entirely in aspect.

My dear Poirot, it's not for me to dictate to you. You have a right to your own opinion, just as I have mine.

What a lot of funny people it does take to make a world.

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

Life 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

The young have very curious views on unselfishness.

When youth begins to pass, fun isn't fun any longer.

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

If you care for money too much, it is only the money you see, everything else is in shadow.

One takes things for granted too much," said Emily Brent.

Men, they never think.

It was so hard to get an idea of people you had never seen. You had to rely on other people's judgment. ... Other people's impressions were no good to you. They might be just as true as yours but you couldn't act on them. You couldn't, as it were, use another person's angle of attack.

Lo imposible no puede haber sucedido; por tanto, lo imposible tiene que ser posible, a pesar de las apariencias.

Looking back, I can see that one of the things my friends had to suffer out of affection for me was my optimism about weather,

And how do you know that these fine begonias are not of equal importance?

The new world was the same as the old. The houses were different, the streets were called Closes, the clothes were different, the voices were different, but the human beings were the same as they always had been. And though using slightly different phraseology, the subjects of conversation were the same.

They all fuss about me so," she said. "They rub it in that I'm an old woman." "And you don't feel like one." "No, I don't, Jane. In spite of all my aches and pains–and I've got plenty. Inside I go on feeling just like a chit like Gina. Perhaps everyone does. The glass shows them how old they are and they just don't believe it.

Don't be offended because I think you're young. Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.

The accepted version of certain facts is not necessarily the true one.

Men and women don't react in the same way. What it comes down to is this. Men are the more sensitive sex. Women are tough. Men can't take murder in their stride. Women apparently can. The fact is, if a man's committed a murder for a woman, it probably enhances his value in her eyes. A man feels differently.

I may," said Poirot in a completely unconvinced tone, "be wrong." Morton smiled. "But that doesn't often happen to you?" "No. Though I will admit - yes, I am forced to admit - that it has happened to me." "I must say I'm glad to hear it! To be always right must be sometimes monotonous." "I do not find it so," Poirot assured him.

Now there has been a rearrangement of the kaleidoscope.

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.