Fortunately words, ingeniously used, will serve to mask the ugliness of naked facts.
Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as...
And then?And then, said Poirot. We will talk! Je vous assure, Hastings - there is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me...
A man who has shot lions in large quantities has an unfair advantage over other men.
A brave new world. There isn't anything really like that, is there?You don't believe in it?Do you?There is always a brave new world, said Poirot, but only, you know, for very special people. The lucky...
أنت تعتقد أنك تعجب بالميزات الاخلاقية ولكن عندما تقع في الحب فأنت تعود إلى فطرتك البدائية حيث تكون القوة الجسدية هي المفضلة
Those who have listened do not find it easy to talk; they keep their sorrows and joys to themselves and tell no one.
Dare say it is good for one now and again to realize what an idiot one can be! But nobody relishes the process.
There's a saying by some great writer or other that no man is a hero to his valet. Perhaps everyone ought to have a valet.
If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.
I've heard that you're the cat's whiskers, M. Poirot.Comment? The cat's whiskers? I do not understand.Well that you're It.Madame, I may or may not have brains - as a matter of fact I have - why preten...
I suppose next time I come home I shall find you wearing false moustaches—or are you doing so now?' Poirot winced. His moustaches had always been his sensitive point. He was inordinately proud of them...
Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple
And suddenly one of those moments of intense happiness came to her--a sense of the loveliness of the world--of her own intense enjoyment of that world.
An appreciative listener is always stimulating.
Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so...
Accuracy is more a male quality than a female one. - Jane Marple
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
You're very young...you haven't got to that yet. But it does come! The blessed relief when you know that you've done with it all - that you haven't got to carry the burden any longer. You'll feel that...
You think he is marrying her for money?''Yes, I do. Don't you think so?''I should say quite certainly,' said Miss Marple. 'Like young Ellis who married Marion Bates, the rich ironmonger's daughter. Sh...