“Truth of it is,’ said Commander Haydock, steering rather erratically round a one-way island and narrowly missing collision with a large van, ‘when the beggars are right, one remembers it, and when they’re wrong you forget it.”
N or M? (1941)
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Agatha Christie 320
English mystery and detective writer 1890–1976Related quotes
Source: Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
“Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.'
'You think so?”
'I'm quite sure. If you don't it doesn't matter. Nothing will matter then.'
Colonel John Boyle and David in Ch. 7
The Garden of Eden (1986)
Ibid.
Essays and reviews
“You have to remember how the islands move. If you forget that, you're lost.”
An Ocean in Mind (1987)
Sylva Sylvarum Century X (1627)
Source: The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon
Context: It is true that may hold in these things, which is the general root of superstition; namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.
“When no idea seems right, the right one must seem wrong.”
Music, Mind, and Meaning (1981)