“At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.”
Source: Murder at the Vicarage
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Agatha Christie320
English mystery and detective writer 1890–1976Related quotes
Ben Harper (1969) singer-songwriter and musician
One Road to Freedom.
Song lyrics, Fight for Your Mind (1995)
John Twelve Hawks American writer
Against Authority: Freedom and the Rise of Surveillance States (2014)
“Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.”
Laurell K. Hamilton book Bloody Bones
Source: Bloody Bones
“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
Tom Stoppard (1937) British playwright
Misattributed
Source: Hermann Weyl as quoted by Freeman Dyson: "Characteristic of Weyl was an aesthetic sense which dominated his thinking on all subjects. He once said to me, half-joking, 'My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.'" - Freeman Dyson, "Obituary of Hermann Weyl," Nature (1956-03-10), pp. 457-458.
Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) American artist
Greenberg visited her early show early 1950, Frankenthaler was asked to organize a benefit show of paintings by Bennington alumnae
1970s - 1980s, interview with Deborah Salomon in 'New York Times', 1989
“Some of life's best lessons are learned at the worst times.”
Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist
Lost Woman Song
Song lyrics
Franz Liszt (1811–1886) Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist
As quoted in Alan Walker, Franz Liszt : The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847 (1987) Page 117.