Quotes About Perspective

So many noble ideas flowing about. But then, you see, whom have you got to work out the ideas with? After all, only the same human beings you've always had. You can create a third world now, or so everyone thinks, but the third world will have the same people in it as the first world or the second world or whatever names you like to call things. And when you have the same human beings running things, they'll run them the same way.

Io non sono brava come voi, Monsieur Poirot. Metà delle cose che mi avete detto mi sembravano fatti sconclusionati e senza senso. Anche a me erano venute delle idee, ma da un angolo completamente diverso..." "Ah, ma è sempre così", disse Poirot senza scomporsi. "Uno specchio mostra a tutti la stessa verità, ma ognuno la vede da angoli diversi, a seconda della posizione che ha rispetto a esso.

I wouldn't like to deprive you of the pleasure of being clever at my expense!

Poirot looked up at the sky. 'When the sun shines you cannot see the moon,' he said. 'But when the sun is gone–ah, when the sun is gone.' Cornelia's mouth fell open. 'I beg your pardon?' 'I was saying, Mademoiselle, that when the sun has gone down, we shall see the moon. That is so, is it not?

Qué es importante y que no lo es? Nunca se puede decir. Hemos de fijarnos en los menores detalles.

I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry," answered Father Brown. "The things that happen here do not seem to mean anything; they mean something somewhere else. Somewhere else retribution will come on the real offender. Here it often seems to fall on the wrong person.

But that is how life is viewed. When you are young, you are YOUNG; when you are in vigour you are a 'VERY strong man'; when your vigour begins to fail, you are OLD. If old, you might as well be as old as possible.

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

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

Oh yes," said Miss Marple fervently. "I always believe the worst. What is so sad is that one is usually justified in doing so.

But who thinks of death in the middle of life?" -Mike Rogers Endless Night by Agatha Christie

The amount of women you hear say, "If Donald—or Arthur—or whatever his name was—had only lived." And I sometimes think but if he had, he'd have been a stout, unromantic, short-tempered, middle-aged husband as likely as not.

On my way home, I ran into Miss Hartnell and she detained me at least ten minutes, declaiming in her deep bass voice against the improvidence and ungratefulness of the lower classes. The crux of the matter seemed to be that The Poor did not want Miss Hartnell in their houses. My sympathies were entirely on their side.

Some people are wise - they never expect to be happy. I did.

Oh, Lord," muttered Anthony, "what a lot of funny people it does take to make a world.

The young people think that the old people are fools, but the old people KNOW the young people are fools.

Calgary sighed. Things were never, he thought, the way you imagined them to be. Every day he found himself less attracted to the man whose name he had taken such trouble to vindicate. He was almost coming to understand and share the point of view which had so astounded him at Sunny Point.

One man in a thousand can see the moons of Jupiter. Because the other nine hundred and ninety-nine can't see them there's no reason to doubt that the moons of Jupiter exist, and certainly no reason for calling the thousandth man a lunatic.

Kathrine had seldom had that useful thing, a 'day off'. 'But in a way, being tied physically gives you lots of scope mentally. You're always free to think.

To begin with, nobody actually heard the shot. Two or three women say they did because they want to think they did - but that's all there is to it.

Los ojos ven, a veces lo que se ha querido que vieran.

One can't do anything without a man. Men know so much, and are able to get information in so many ways that are simply impossible to women.

Ah, but that is always so," said Poirot quietly. "A mirror shows the truth, but everyone stands in a different place for looking into the mirror.

La vida se nos antoja más llena de interés cuando estamos a punto de perderla.