It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breedi….

You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth..

That is what I mean. A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one turns the taps and fills it, one gets in, one gets out and ghoosh - ghoosh - ghoosh, th….

I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Comprom….

Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?.

And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, ….

An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not..

I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were a….

The tragedy of life is that people do not change..

To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains..

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will..

Everything has got its right size. When it is its right size and well run it's the tops..

There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time..

To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience….

Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple.

Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride..

One never quite allows for the moron in our midst..

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world w….

Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess..

Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise..

I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justi….