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It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books.
Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.
Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.
Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.
More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!
If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.
Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?
... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good.
Wonderful things, horses. Never know what they will do, or won't do.
Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.
Money ... is always the great clue to what is happening in the world.
If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.
Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.
I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)
if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.
In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.
Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.
Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.
A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.
I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.
A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves
Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.
Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.
The supernatural is only the natural of which the laws are not yet understood.
If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!
I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.
There's nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation.
Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.
There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.
Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.
Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with.
I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.