I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate..

Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?.

... 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 ….

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you..

You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen b….

I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts..

If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid..

There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to….

It's a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not ….

God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty….

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

... obsessions are always dangerous..

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget..

You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst!.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all tha….

The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized..

Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas..

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

"I think you're begging the question," said Haydock, "and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where six men have w….

When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!.

It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to..