Papa always said that in the beginning men and women roamed the world together, equal in strength - like lions and tigers -And giraffes? interpolated Colonel Race slyly. I laughed. Everyone makes fun...
I had the firm conviction that, if I went about looking for adventure, adventure would meet me halfway. It is a theory of mine that one always gets what one wants.
But Aunt Maureen makes smashing omelettes. Julia Upjohn.She makes smashing omelettes. Poirot's voice was happy. He sighed.Then Hercule Poirot has not lived in vain, he said. It was I who taught your A...
Men don't want to be brothers - they may someday, but they don't now. My belief in the brotherhood of man died the day I arrived in London last week, when I observed the people standing in a Tube trai...
You should employ your little grey cells
I really cannot understand the point of what you're saying. Really,' said Clotilde, looking at her. 'What a very extraordinary person you are. What sort of a woman are you? Why are you talking like th...
I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
When a man's neck's in danger, he doesn't stop to think too much aboutsentiment.
The Beddingfeld girl was deep in conversation with the missionary parson, Chichester. Women always flutter round parsons.
I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves, said Joanna. It arouses all my worst instincts.
I find most of the human race extraordinarily repulsive. They probably reciprocate this feeling.
Don't you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child?Miss Bulstrode's thoughts.
Discussions of death and such matters do more to unlock the human tongue than any other subject.
To know when to use the truth is the essence of successful deception
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.
Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
There! Now we're friends! declared the minx. Say you're sorry about my sister -I am desolated!That's a good boy!
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.