Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?
They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.
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!
I think a woman smothered in cheap scent is one of the greatest abominations known to mankind - Lord Mayfield
I have learned to save myself useless emotion.
I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people if they are sorry for themselves. Self-pity is the biggest stumbling block in our world today.~Jess...
I dare say it is good for one now and again to realize what an idiot one can be! But no one relishes the process.
Death, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased... There is a great charity always to the dead.
Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.
To see ourselves as others see us!
Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -The Blood-Stained Pavement
One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.
Mary seemed to have taken a perverse pleasure in seeing how best she could alternate undercooking and overcooking.
I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.
I avoided my own friends and acquaintances, yet the loneliness of my existence was insupportable.
I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.
إن الأطفال مخلوقات صغيرة غريبة، إذا تعرضوا لخوف رهيب فإنهم لا يتحدثون عنه، و لا سيما إذا كانوا لا يفهمون مصدر رعبهم. إنهم يدفنون خوفهم بين جوارحهم، و ربما بدا أنهم نسوه و لكن ذكراه تبقى هناك في أعماق...
Will you pour out tea, Miss Brent?' The elder woman replied: 'No, you do it, dear. That tea-pot is so heavy. And I have lost two skeins of my grey knitting-wool. So annoying.' Vera moved to the...