People who can be very good can be very bad too.
Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes-they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.... The happy people are failures because...
It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.
It seems odd that as far as I know nobody has yet been murdered for having too perfect a character! And yet perfection is undoubtedly an irritating thing!
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.
It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.
Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
I love autumn. It’s so much richer than spring.
I have always disapproved of murder.
Go away where you're loved and taken care of and looked after.
Edna restored the toffee to the centre of her tongue and sucking pleasurably, resumed her typing of Naked Love by Armand Levine. Its painstaking eroticism left her uninterested--as indeed it did most...
Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.
Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with.
When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so.
What's wrong with my proposition?Poirot rose. If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face.
To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
There’s too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I might concede you the Devil. God doesn’t really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We’re so very busy punishi...
There is no such thing as a really calm sea. Always, always, there is motion.
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...
One gets infected, it is true, by the style of a work that one has been reading.