Occupation: Novelist Birth: September 15, 1890 Death: January 12, 1976
In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it..
Fear is incomplete knowledge..
you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving..
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly tha….
Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong..
No innocent person ever has an alibi..
Assumptions are dangerous things..
Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together ….
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend..
More children suffer from interference than from non-interference..
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save on….
Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic..
The rottenness comes from within..
Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken.
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her..
Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intel….
Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind..
Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence..
It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breedi….
But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price..
You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth..