Fear is incomplete knowledge..

One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always c….

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly tha….

In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it..

you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving..

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..

If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything..

To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedicatio….

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories..

It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!.

... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good..

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored..

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..

No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --P….

Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations..

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody..

The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask..

There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating..

Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband..