Max Beesley Quotes

I know you followed me. Don't look so surprised. It's called a rearview mirror.

The hardest part of watching someone watching me is making it appear that I'm not watching.

I looked into Mr. Putin's eyes, and I saw three letters, a "K," a "G," and a "B."

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

I can't bear to let all this beautiful talk go by. Everybody says... fantastic things. People are always putting it down as an invasion of privacy, but I think everyone should be bugged all the time... bugged and photographed.

Everybody spies on everybody, I mean, that's just a fact.

It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?

Whatever it is, it feels like it's laughing at me Through the glass of a two-sided mirror.

The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.

It's no good operating on eyes if your eyes are asleep.

People think that they see, but they don't.

If you give people more perspective of one object, they start to see it more clearly.

I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.

Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.

It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.

We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).

Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right.

This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.

Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.

How hard I find it to see what is right in front of my eyes!

Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.

Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.

I was quiet but I was not blind.

Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.