Why didn't they ask the Evans?
It's what's in that makes you happy or unhappy.
If the fact will not fit the theory - let the theory go
Yes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an important fellow creature's life is at stake. You understand me?
People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something. I've known many an invalid who has suffered worse and been cut off from life much more . . . a...
… one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back – that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street.
Youth is a failing only tooeasily outgrown.
One always has hope for human nature
No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.
It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong...
I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim-it is the picture of a girl watching her lover dies.
Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.
Vi pripadate Ligi naroda?-Ja pripadam cijelom svijetu, madame, reče Poirot dramatično.
Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.
I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.
She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil.
The expected has happened, and when the expected happens, it always causes me emotion.
These blondes, sir, they're responsible for a lot of trouble.
He laughs best who laughs at the end.
Death was for-the other people.