They say all the world loves a lover—apply that saying to murder and you have an even more infallible truth.
The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.
The body—the cage—is everything of the most respectable—but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.
That's the curious part about speaking the truth. No one does believe it.
Ten little Indian boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine.Nine little Indian boys sat up very late; One overslept himself and then there were eight.Eight little Indi...
Some of us, in the words of the divine Greta Garbo, want to be alone.
Poirot, I said. I have been thinking.An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.
Poirot sighed. He said The world is yours, the new heaven and the new earth. In your new world, my children, let there be freedom, and let there be pity. That is all I ask.
One's own troubles sharpen one's eyes sometimes.
One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.
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...
Murder, you see, is an amateur crime... One feels, very often, as though these nice ordinary chaps, had been overtaken, as it were, by murder, almost accidentally. They've been in a tight place, or th...
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...
It seems dreadful to say so, but there is something attractive to a girl in being told anyone is a bad man. She thinks at once that her love will reform him.
It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!
Is death the greatest evil that can happen to anyone?
Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.
I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. 'The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life' That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike a...