Good gracious, Jerry, you'll probably have to marry the girl.'Joanna was half serious, half laughing.It was at that moment that I made a very important discovery.'Damn it all,' I said. 'I don't mind i...
When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!
Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will befall them?''G...
There's no reason why women shouldn't behave like rational beings, Simon asserted stolidly.Poirot said drily: Quite frequently they do. That is even more upsetting!
There is the natural liar...Always says the thing that sounds best.
The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.
Six people were thinking of Rosemary Barton who had died nearly a year ago...
Oh, yes. I've no doubt in my own mind that we have been invited here by a madman-probably a dangerous homicidal lunatic.
No, I wouldn't. I wouldn’t tell a soul.''People who use that phrase are always the last to live up to it.
Motives for murder are sometimes very trivial, Madame. What are the most usual motives, Monsieur Poirot? Most frequent—money. That is to say, gain in its various ramifications. Then there is revenge—a...
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.
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 believe the present matters --- not the past! The past muust go. If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it. We see it in exaggerated terms --- a false perspective. - Hilda...
Human nature is always interesting... And it's curious to see how certain types always tend to act in exactly the same way. - Miss Marple, The Herb of Death, Pg. 167
Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.
Everybody always knows something, said Adam, even if it's something they don't know they know.
Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.
Born poor doesn't mean you've got to stay poor. Money's queer. It goes where it's wanted.
An appreciative listener is always stimulating.
I think people more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possible because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you.