Was bad language used? asked Colonel Melchett.It depends on what you call bad language.Could you understand it? I asked.Of course I could understand it.Then it couldn’t have been bad language, I said....
The rottenness comes from within.
Tea's a thing that need never be finished.
Sometimes what you think is an end is only a beginning. And that wouldn't do at all.
Sometimes one sees things clearly years afterwards than one could possibly at the time.
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.
In fact-Dr. Sheppard!
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles one would hardly see anybody.
When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
the elephant can remember.
I remember one teacher there -- I can't recall her name now. She was short and spare, and I remember her eager jutting chin. Quite unexpectedly one day (in the middle, I think, of an arithmetic lesson...
My flute, M. Poirot, is my oldest companion. When everything else fails, music remains.
Why the worst women should always attract the best men is something hard to fathom!
When will a woman lie? Sometimes for herself. Usually for the man she loves. Always for her children.
There is nothing so terrible as to live in an atmosphere of suspicion - to see eyes watching you and the love in them changing to fear - nothing so terrible as to suspect those near and dear to you -...
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.