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….

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

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

"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….

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

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….

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impresse….

You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it.….

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely..

It's no good starting out by thinking one is a heaven-born genius- some people are, but very few. No, one is a tradesman - a tradesman in a good hone….

And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-" "Ah, no, my friend-" "From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us….

Money ... is always the great clue to what is happening in the world..

You should employ your little grey cells..

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation..

marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge..

Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is..

There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to revea….

A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man..

Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do..

Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?.

It's very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suff….