A man who has shot lions in large quantities has an unfair advantage over other men.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
Archaeologists only look at what lies beneath their feet. The sky and the heavens don't exist for them.
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...
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....
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 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.