So you think that the coco- mark well what I say, Hastings, the coco- contained strychnine? Of course! That salt on the tray, what else could it have been? It might have been salt. replied Poirot plac...
No, I wouldn't. I wouldn’t tell a soul.''People who use that phrase are always the last to live up to it.
Never part with information unnecessarily. That's my rule,
It is always a shock to meet again someone whom you have not seen for a long time but who has been very much present in your mind during that period.
Is death the greatest evil that can happen to anyone?
In fact-Dr. Sheppard!
I walked into Cartwright’s and ordered two coffee ice cream sodas—to steady my nerves. A man, I suppose, would have had a stiff peg; but girls derive a lot of comfort from ice cream sodas. I applied m...
I objected vigorously to this unsporting proposal. I recognized in it the disastrous effects of matrimony. How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female say, in the tone of one clinching a...
I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.
I have always disapproved of murder.
He was tall and broad-shouldered, wore a dark overcoat and black boots, a bowler hat. He had a dark-pointed beard and gold-rimmed eyeglasses. Take away the overcoat, the beard and the eyeglasses, and...
Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.
But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.
Born poor doesn't mean you've got to stay poor. Money's queer. It goes where it's wanted.
Because, you see, if the man were an invention—a fabrication—how much easier to make him disappear!
BLOSSOM
Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.
All around us are people, of all classes, of all nationalities, of all ages. For three days these people, these strangers to one another, are brought together. They sleep and eat under one roof, they...
A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man. (Inspector Miller)
A diary is useful for recording the idiosyncrasies of other people—but not one’s own.