Occupation: Novelist Birth: September 15, 1890 Death: January 12, 1976
Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of Mrs. Armstrong's….
I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one w….
I really cannot understand the point of what you're saying. Really,' said Clotilde, looking at her. 'What a very extraordinary person you are. What s….
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will..
A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in l….
It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting..
It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are..
Books are a habit-forming drug..
It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance..
One place is very like another..
To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedicatio….
... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good..
Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective..
There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands..
the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!.
I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories..
It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what….
I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery..
There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sof….
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 i….
In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it..