You are the patient one, Mademoiselle, ' said Poirot to Miss Debenham.She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.'That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.

Agatha Christie
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Patience is supported & nurtured by a quality of forgiveness. - Allan Lokos

  2. Patience is a power unto itself. - Robyn Wideman

  3. Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper. - Anne Lamott

  4. I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will... - Anne Lamott

  5. The strongest of all warriors are these two – Time and Patience. - Leo Tolstoy

More Quotes By Agatha Christie
  1. It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

  2. I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

  3. To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

  4. Poirot, " I said. "I have been thinking."" An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.

  5. No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought?-- Poirot

Related Topics