Occupation: Novelist Birth: September 15, 1890 Death: January 12, 1976
You should employ your little grey cells..
A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves.
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..
I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself….
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them..
Money ... is always the great clue to what is happening in the world..
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..
You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories..
To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness..
One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice..
Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen..
Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess..
You'll be glad too, when the end comes..
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….
There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time..
To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains..
Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master..
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….
Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax..
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….
What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean..