Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don’t you?” “Of course I believe in the truth,” said Rhoda, staring. “Yes, you say that, but perhaps you haven’t thought about it. The truth hurts sometimes – and destroys one’s illusions.” “I’d rather have it all the same.” said Rhoda. “So would I. But I don’t know that we’re wise.” Mrs. Oliver; Rhoda Dawes
In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?
I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.
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.
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.
And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!
When a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.
It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books.
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.
Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day's work....where crime is concerned, she's the goods.
there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.
Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.
If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.
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?'
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]
The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.
There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.
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.
One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.
... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.
I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself.
You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.
Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?
And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.
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..."
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