Bad habit, lunch. A banana and a water biscuit is all any sane healthy man should need in the middle of the day.
Her sleep was enlivened by several dreams. One where Professor Wanstead's bushy eyebrows fell off because they were not his own eyebrows, but false ones. As she woke again, her first impression was th...
You should employ your little grey cells
We never seemed to have any money. His celebrity was not of the kind that brought in a cash return. Although he was a fellow of almost every important society and had rows of letters after his name, t...
There is no such thing as a really calm sea. Always, always, there is motion.
The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.
The illusion that freedom is the prerogative of one’s own particular race is fairly widespread. Dr Gerard was wiser. He knew that no race, no country and no individual could be described as free. But...
That is why most great love stories are tragedies.
Some of us, in the words of the divine Greta Garbo, want to be alone.
One gets infected, it is true, by the style of a work that one has been reading.
Oh! money! All the troubles in the world can be put down to money—or the lack of it.
Nowadays, no one believes in evil. It is considered, at most, a mere negation of good. Evil, people say, is done by those who know no better - who are undeveloped - who are to be pitied rather than bl...
Nothing is so sad, in my opinion, as the devastation wrought by age. My poor friend. I have described him many times. Now to convey to you the difference. Crippled with arthritis, he propelled himself...
Nobody understands the art of living nowadays,... Catching trains, making appointments, fixing times for everything—all nonsense. Get up with the sun I say, have your meals when you feel like it, and...
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.
My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)
Money, money, money! I think about money morning, noon and night! I dare say it's mercenary of me, but there it is
Mademoiselle, I beseech you, do not do what you are doing. Leave dear Linnet alone, you mean! It is deeper than that. Do not open your heart to evil. Her lips fell apart; a look of bewilderment came i...
Lord Cronshaw’s party consisted of six people: he himself, his uncle, the Honourable Eustace Beltane, a pretty American widow, Mrs. Mallaby, a young actor, Chris Davidson, his wife, and last but not l...