To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.
The spoken word and the written - there is an astonishing gulf between them. There is a way of turning sentences that completely reverses the meaning.
The past is the father of the present.
The little grey cells, my friend, the little grey cells! They told 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's the secret of existence. We're all a little mad.
Not a look, not a gesture of Valerie Saintclair’s but expressed drama. She seemed to exhale an atmosphere of romance. A scarlet flannel dressing gown covered her feet—a homely garment in all conscienc...
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, doctor, I'm going to London. If things happen anywhere, they happen in London.
My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)
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...
Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watc...
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 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.
I think people more often kill those they love, than those they hate. Possibly because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you.
But there are many fools in the world. One praises God for their existence and keeps out of their way.
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...
One may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.
That was what murder was-as easy as that!But afterwards you went on remembering...
Gorilla