Quotes About Observation

A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.

Henry James chews more than he bites off.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

You can only predict things after they've happened.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

England is a nation of voyeurs.

It seems to me that you can go sauntering along for a certain period, telling the English some interesting things about themselves, and then all at once it feels as if you had stepped on the prongs of a rake.

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.

A fly sat on the chariot wheel And said "What a dust I raise."

Baby bye Here's a fly, Let us watch him, you and I. How he crawls Up the walls Yet he never falls.

It takes immense genius to represent, simply and sincerely, what we see in front of us.

I have found men more kind than I expected, and less just.

A friend of mine says that every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

People see God every day, they just don't recognize Him.

Little pitchers have wide ears.

The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.

The great humorist forgets himself in his delighted contemplation of other people.

When the fox preaches, look to your geese.

I think when an actor feels like they're being watched with great sensitivity and a subtle eye and a nose for truthfulness, that has some effect.