Quotes About Perception

Ah, mais c'est Anglais ca," he murmured, "everything in black and white, everything clear cut and well defined. But life, it is not like that, Mademoiselle. There are things that are not yet, but which cast their shadow before.

What are murderers like? Some of them, have been thoroughly nice chaps.

Use your eyes. Use your ears. Use your brains---if you've got any. And, if necessary--act.

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.

always bear in mind that the person who speaks may be lying

Why the worst women should always attract the best men is something hard to fathom!

Miss Bulstrode had another faculty which demonstrated her superiority over most other women. She could listen.

To see ourselves as others see us!

You don't appreciate a faithful husband when you've got one,' said Tommy. 'All my friends tell me you never know with husbands,' said Tuppance. 'You have the wrong kind of friends,' said Tommy.

Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple

Men are so superior about their Latin," said Mrs. Blair. "But all the same I notice that when you ask them to translate inscriptions in old churches, they can never do it! They hem and haw, and get out of it somehow.

People in the dark are quite different, aren't they?

Miss Marple is a white-haired old lady with a gentle appealing manner- Miss Wetherby is a mixture of vinegar and gush. Of the two Miss Marple is the more dangerous.

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

My sister continued: 'What did she die of? Heart failure?' 'Didn't the milkman tell you that?' I inquired sarcastically. Sarcasm is wasted on Caroline. She takes it seriously and answers accordingly. 'He didn't know,' she explained.

To know when to use the truth is the essence of successful deception

I think a woman smothered in cheap scent is one of the greatest abominations known to mankind - Lord Mayfield

How strange that a girl could trouble your inmost soul so long as she kept her mouth shut, and that the moment she spoke the glamour could vanish as though it had never been.

It's awfully easy to appear silly, Mr. Clement. It's one of the easiest things in the world.

Miss Marple always sees everything. Gardening is as good as a smoke screen, and the habit of observing birds through powerful glasses can always be turned to account.

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

It was not until I was over twenty that I realised that my home standard had been unusually high and that actually I was quite as quick or quicker than the average. Inarticulate I shall always be. It is probably one of the causes that have made made me a writer.

Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.