There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself..

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

a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness..

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

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like your….

You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories..

One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice..

You'll be glad too, when the end comes..

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen..

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

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….

the science of tomorrow is the supernatural of today..

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

There speaks the passion and the rebellion that go with red hair. My second wife had red hair. She was a beautiful woman, and she loved me. Strange, ….

I've got an uncle myself. Nobody should be held responsible for their uncles. Nature's little throwbacks - that's how I look at it..

Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even i….

I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate ….

too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being..

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

"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters.".

It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap..