Occupation: Novelist Birth: September 15, 1890 Death: January 12, 1976
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….
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….
Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple.
I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste..
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..
Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget..
It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot.
Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas..
... obsessions are always dangerous..
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….
"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….
The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized..
... 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 ….
Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it..
It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to..
Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you..
To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience….
When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!.
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….
Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and….
You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst!.