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

Agatha Christie
Some Similar Quotes
  1. The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. - William Shakespeare

  2. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times. - Paulo Coelho

  3. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle

  4. The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them. - Paulo Coelho

  5. By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. - Confucius

More Quotes By Agatha Christie
  1. Each time you happen to me all over again.

  2. There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

  3. Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment and it helped me. It has always helped me.

  4. Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

  5. To know when to be generous and when firm–that is wisdom.

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