No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought?--Poirot
Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.
Never part with information unnecessarily. That's my rule,
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.
Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living i...
It is not the past that matters,but the future
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 mean, what you say about how you write your books? What I mean is, first you've got to think of something, and then when you've thought of it you've got to force yourself to sit down and write it....
Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
Because of his face. His face? But— Yes, I know what you’re going to say. It’s a sinister face. That’s just it. No man with a face like that could be really sinister. It must be a colossal joke on the...
At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.
And then there were none.
Truth however bitter can be accepted and woven into a design for living.
And anyway who the devil should I want to murder?""That would be a very good question," said Miss Marple. "I have not yet had the pleasure of sufficient conversation with you to evolve a theory as to...
Business is based on the well-known principle of supply and demand. You want something, the other man has it. The only thing left to settle is the price.
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
What can I say at seventy-five? Thank God for my good life,and for all the love that has been given to me.
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...
One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.