Gladys Mitchell famous quotes

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Such an error, one finds, to do things for the best. They usually seem to be such unpleasant things.
-- Gladys Mitchell

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I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable.
-- Gladys Mitchell

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In a sense, all murderers are lunatics. Killing is a not a sane reaction to the circumstances of life.
-- Gladys Mitchell

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But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. 'Might makes right,' and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies.
It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.
Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off the track, I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistakes, all that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
Understand that for every rule which I have mentioned from the Quran, the Devil has one to match it, which he puts beside the proper rule to cause error.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.
Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
Such an error, one finds, to do things for the best. They usually seem to be such unpleasant things.
Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
Having contacts with Russian ambassador or with Russian representatives in this or that field does not mean interference in Americans' affairs - domestic affairs.

Gladys Mitchell famous quotes

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