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...
Mrs. Cavendish: I am charming to my friends one day, and forget all about them the next.
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...
It is completely unimportant, said Poirot. That is why it is so interesting, he added softly.
I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry, answered Father Brown. The things that happen here do not seem to mean anything; they mean something somewhere else. Somewhere else retributi...
I know when a couple are really in love with each other. And by that I do not mean just sexually attracted. There is too much talk about sex, too much attention is paid to it. I do not mean that anyth...
How well you express it! That is exactly the curse of a politician’s life. He has to bow to the country’s feeling, however dangerous and foolhardy he knows it to be. That
How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.
How can I go on living here and suspecting everybody ?
Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot
A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.
The human mind prefers to be spoonfed with the thoughts of others but deprived of such nourishment it will reluctantly begin to think for itself- and such thinking remember is original thinking a...
It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.
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...
Wherever there is human nature, there is drama.
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...
What alchemy there was in human beings.
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...