With women, love always comes first.
Underneath the quarrels,the misunderstandings, the apparent hostility of everyday life, a real and true affection can exist. Married life, I mused, as I went to bed,was a curious thing.
The dog hunts rabbits. Hercule Poirot hunts murderers.
It is a profound belief of mine that if you can induce a person to talk to you for long enough, on any subject whatever! sooner or later they will give themselves away.
I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea....
Guy Pagett is my secretary, a zealous, painstaking, hardworking fellow, admirable in every respect. I know no one who annoys me more. For a long time I have been racking my brains as to how to get rid...
As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.
Archaeologists only look at what lies beneath their feet. The sky and the heavens don't exist for them.
Fear, what a strange thing fear was...
The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.
You want beauty, said Hercule Poirot. Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth I want. Always truth.
You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.
To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never reall...
That is what I mean. A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one turns the taps and fills it, one gets in, one gets out and ghoosh - ghoosh - ghoosh, the water goes down the waste pipe!M. Poirot are you...
Don’t hiss at me, Pagett, I said, drawing back a little, and do control your breathing. Your idea is absurd. Why should they want to have a secret meeting in the middle of the night? If they’d anythin...
A man doesn't want to feel that a woman cares more for him than he cares for her. He doesn't want to feel owned, body and soul. It's that damned possessive attitude. This man is mine---he belongs to m...
Let this be a lesson to you. You are a . Behave, then, like a ! It is against Nature for a man to grovel. Women and Nature have almost exactly the same reactions! Remember it is better to take the lar...
You can't save someone who doesn't want to be saved.