Quotes About Perception

Women can be fools in ninety-nine different ways but be pretty shrewd in the hundredth.

Qué quiere decir la mayoría de la gente cuando dice eso? ¡Tan joven! Algo inocente, algo suplicante, algo indefenso. Pero la juventud no es eso. La juventud es cruda, la juventud es fuerte, la juventud es poderosa... Sí, ¡y cruel! Y alguna cosa más: la juventud es vulnerable».

Meu amigo Hastings, aquele sobre quem lhe falei, costumava me dizer que eu era uma ostra humana. Mas ele era injusto. Sobre os fatos, eu não retenho nada comigo. Mas cada um os interpreta a seu modo.

The thing people don't seem to want anywhere, nowadays," said Bob, "is anyone who's got a bit of common sense. I've never been a brainy chap?well, you know that well enough, Ali?but I often think that that's what the world really needs?just a bit of common sense.

Cuántas veces no habré oído decir a una mujer inteligente a más no poder: "Edgardo dice...", como quien cita a una autoridad incontrovertible. Y eso cuando todo el mundo sabe que Edgardo es un perfecto idiota.

His eyes were set rather close together and they had a way of shifting uneasily from side to side when he was embarrassed. He was inclined to be suspicious and slightly hostile.

there was a good deal going on underneath the quietness.

It is misfortune of small precise men to hanker after large and flamboyant women.

In case, I would prefer to say, that some circumstances should strike me in a different light to the one in which it struck you. Human reactions vary and so does human experience. ~Hercule Poirot

What beats me—it always does—is how a man can be so clever and yet be such a perfect fool.

Her nephew had once compared life in St. Mary Mead to scum on a pond, and she had indignantly pointed out that smeared on a slide under the microscope there would be plenty of life to be observed. Yes, indeed, in St. Mary Mead, there was always something going on.

Fear, Mr. Burton, is an incalculable thing.

So she's a liar too!" I said. "The cool way she answered you this morning about these same letters!

Such a one is encased, is he not, in an armour—such an armour! The armour of the crusaders was nothing to it—an armour of arrogance, of pride, of complete self-esteem. This armour, it is in some ways a protection, the arrows, the everyday arrows of life glance off it. But there is this danger; Sometimes a man in armour might not even know he was being attacked. He will be slow to see, slow to hear—slower still to feel.

Young women do not faint nowadays, monsieur, without considerable provocation.

Muitas pessoas não me parecem nem boas, nem más, mas apenas bastante tolas, sabe?

And all these girls with their make-up and their hair and their nails look so alike.

Why I do believe that's old Jane Marple. Thought she was dead years ago. Looks a hundred.

You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.

Beauty is in the mind, not the eye.

What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

Scientific facts are few and far between, popular facts are commonplace and not usually facts at all.