Quotes About Expression

Otherwise spirituality and our daily life become two separate things. That's the primary illusion -- that there is something called "my spiritual life," and something called "my daily life." When we wake up to reality, we find they are all one thing. It's all one seamless expression of spirit.

Confound those who have said our remarks before us.

Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.

Both silent, when there is need, and speaking in season.

She looked just like a painting dying to speak.

Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most

The teeth are smiling, but is the heart?

Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.

He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.

Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

The spoken word and the written - there is an astonishing gulf between them. There is a way of turning sentences that completely reverses the meaning.

Was bad language used?" asked Colonel Melchett. "It depends on what you call bad language." "Could you understand it?" I asked. "Of course I could understand it." "Then it couldn't have been bad language," I said. Mrs. Price Ridley looked at me suspiciously. "A refined lady," I explained, "is naturally unacquainted with bad language.

What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face.

Oh, my dear friend, it is impossible not to give oneself away - unless one never opens one's mouth! Speech is the deadliest of revealers.

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.

Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

The two words expressed volumes.

If I were dead, the first thing you'd do, with the tears streaming down your face, would be to start modelling some damned mourning woman or some figure of grief.

But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. Now whenever that young man looked he looked like a sheep I take back all is this morning. It is genuine.

I felt a distinct pleasure in passing on my own discomfiture.

To cry at will is not an easy accomplishment.