Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]
Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was a girl, so as to be more knowledgeable on the subject, he said, 'Don't you realize that at this moment you know more about prehistoric pottery than any woman in England?'
I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know..."
When a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.
Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.
If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.
Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?
Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.
You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst!
To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.
Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?
What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.
Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.
I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back.
At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.
I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting... I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body in the face. It is the means that I am interested in. I do not usually describe the end, which is often a corpse.
You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.
Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.
One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.
Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.
Poirot: Do not allow Hate into your heart, for it will make a home there. Jackie: If Love cannot live there, Hate works just as well.
Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.
Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.
There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.
Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple
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