Quotes About Expression

you've no idea of the agony of having your characters taken and made to say things that they never would have said, and do things that they never would have done. And if you protest, all they say is that it's 'good theatre.

It can happen that if anyone is talking to a person they know cannot see well, they are careless. They permit themselves an expression of face that on other occasions they would not allow.

Fire in her eyes, ice in her voice.

First, you have to think and think and think and think; then you have to force yourself to write it down.

I should like to knock their silly heads together. What is the sense of laughing all the time? They are not saying anything funny.

Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking. It is also an infallible means of discovering that which he wishes to hide.

I think Mrs. Leidner seems happier already from just talking about it. That's always a help, you know. It's bottling things up that makes them get on your nerves.

Miss Marple made the kind of noise that would once have been written down as 'tut-tut'.

Oh, the glorious relief, the wonderful relief when somebody knows what's in your mind and tells it to you so that you are at last released from that long bondage of silence.

If you disperse energy in speech, it doesn't leave you too much over for action.

How well you express it! That is exactly the curse of a politician's life. He has to bow to the country's feeling, however dangerous and foolhardy he knows it to be.

In some ways I really think that men are beasts.

Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

Do you know what you sound like?' said Mrs. Oliver. 'A computer. You know. You're programming yourself. That's what they call it, isn't it? I mean you're feeding all these things into yourself all day and then you're going to see what comes out.

Now we can talk," said Poirot. "When I say that, I mean, really, that I shall talk.

I'm not very good at telling things. I mean if I write things, I get them perfectly clear, but if I talk, it always sounds the most frightful muddle.

Mademoiselle, se non è sposata, vuol dire che nessuno del mio sesso è stato abbastanza eloquente: per scelta e non per necessità, si resta nubili.

Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking. It is also an infallible means of discovering that which he wishes to hide. A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.

I know, Hastings—I know. The spoken word and the written—there is an astonishing gulf between them. There is a way of turning sentences that completely reverses the original meaning.

I'm not at all sure that I'm not a little jealous of her… we women are such cats, aren't we? Scratch, scratch, miauw, miauw, purr, purr…

Seni yang benar-benar seni, tentu saja berbeda, dan anak-anak muda itu memakai alasan seni untuk membenarkan sikap mereka yang malas-malasan

If you will forgive me for being personal—I do not like your face, M. Ratchett,' Poirot said.

You have a great advantage as a writer, Monsieur,' said Poirot. 'You can relieve your feelings by expedient of the printed word. You have the power of the pen over your enemies.

No, no es tan ridículo como usted se figura. Se basa en una necesidad fundamental de la naturaleza humana, en la necesidad de hablar, de revelarse uno a sí mismo