Occupation: Novelist Birth: September 15, 1890 Death: January 12, 1976
And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, ….
Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express.
No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope..
What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's..
I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows..
It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy..
In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occ….
They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing..
It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge t….
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it..
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….
I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Comprom….
Everything has got its right size. When it is its right size and well run it's the tops..
One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone..
One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none..
Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows..
I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there..
Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get ti….
Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool..
But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person….
Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts..