Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them..

The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows..

I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself….

Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that..

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things..

Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself..

When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island..

In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?.

A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves.

I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings.

Be sure thy sin will find thee out..

... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers..

All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was….

... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men' -- you have lost the ….

Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ….

Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap..

The first time you do a thing is always exciting..

Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out ….

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one..

Very few of us are what we seem..

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and o….