Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.
There's a convention that one doesn't speak ill of the dead. That's stupid, I think. The truth's always the truth. On the whole it's better to keep your mouth shut about living people. You might conce...
Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -The Blood-Stained Pavement
Mary seemed to have taken a perverse pleasure in seeing how best she could alternate undercooking and overcooking.
In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)
I avoided my own friends and acquaintances, yet the loneliness of my existence was insupportable.
I admit, I said, that a second murder in a book often cheers things up. - Hastings
Such nice people, the Hillingdons, though she's not really very easy to know, is she? I mean, she's always very pleasant and all that, but one never seems to get to know her better.'Miss Marple agreed...
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
The truth is never horrible, only interesting.
What good is money if it can't buy happiness?
There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.
The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.
Poirot's eyes opened. That is great ferocity, he said.It is a woman, said the chef de train, speaking for the first time. Depend upon it, it was a woman. Only a woman would stab like that.Dr. Constant...
Men—’ said Miss Williams, and stopped.As a rich property owner says ‘Bolsheviks’—as an earnest Communist says ‘Capitalists!’—as a good housewife says ‘Blackbeetles’—so did Miss Williams say ‘Men!
Marriage is called all sorts of things, a haven, and a refuge, and a crowning glory, and a state of bondage, and lots more. But do you know what I think it is?''What?''A sport!''And a damned good spor...
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
If the little grey cells are not exercised, they grow the rust.
I think a woman smothered in cheap scent is one of the greatest abominations known to mankind - Lord Mayfield
I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.