What's wrong with my proposition?Poirot rose. If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face.
What are the years from twenty to forty? Fettered and bound by personal and emotional relationships. That's bound to be. That's living. But later there's a new stage. You can think, observe life, disc...
Very few of us are what we seem.
To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.
To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure.[author's dedication]
The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One does not live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dead,' don’t want to die! People who apparently have...
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. I...
Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the worl...
No, doctor, I'm going to London. If things happen anywhere, they happen in London.
Miss Howard: Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last Chapter. Everyone dumbfounded. Real crime - you'd know at once.
Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one e...
It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.
Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.
I wonder if husbands know as much about their wives as they think they do. If I had a husband, I should hate him to bring home orphans without consulting me first.
I will not look through keyholes, I interrupted hotly. Poirot closed his eyes. Very well, then. You will not look through keyholes. You will remain the English gentleman and someone will be killed.
But there are many fools in the world. One praises God for their existence and keeps out of their way.
A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.
A statesman in these days has a difficult task. He has to pursue the policy he deems advantageous to his country, but he has at the same time to recognize the force of popular feeling. Popular feeling...
Truth however bitter can be accepted and woven into a design for living.