There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want….

Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ….

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….

... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers..

Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap..

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting..

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody..

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and o….

The first time you do a thing is always exciting..

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them..

The supernatural is only the natural of which the laws are not yet understood..

Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out ….

The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffer….

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach..

I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings.

Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express.

Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don’t you?” “Of course I believe in the truth,” said Rhoda, staring. “Yes, you say that, but perhap….

I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself….

The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows..

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had d….

I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, po….