Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken.

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you..

Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor ….

Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering..

People who can be very good can be very bad too..

The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lif….

There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash..

Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown..

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness..

Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master..

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..

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story..

Ideas are like everything else. They've got to be marketed..

If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!.

The simplest explanation is always the most likely..

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person kno….

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 knowledgea….

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the ….

I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste..

They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing..

Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking..