A man doesn't wasnt to feel that a woman cares more for him than he cares for her. He doesn't want to feel owned, body and soul. It's that damned pos….

Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has..

The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate dispos….

If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to pr….

Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's ….

I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! . . . But-incongruous as it may seem….

If only-if only, Hastings, you would part your hair in the middle instead of at the side! What a difference it would make to the symmetry of your app….

There are many things that are unbelievable. Especially before breakfast, is it not? That is what one of your classics says. Six impossible things b….

Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles..

Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows..

There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by….

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity..

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stor….

When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory..

There are some people who don't conform to the signals. An ordinary well-regulated locomotive slows down or pulls up when it sees the red light hoist….

Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed..

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary..

if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty..

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes..

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..

Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together ….