The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later..

You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for..

Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot.

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce the….

I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in th….

Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know..

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you..

I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and….

Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evi….

It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance..

Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best..

It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot.

I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there..

As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is ….

Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax..

What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett..

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it..

I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right..

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them..

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 didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunat….