Occupation: Novelist Birth: September 15, 1890 Death: January 12, 1976
The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later..
An appreciative listener is always stimulating..
Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement..
Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that..
Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored..
You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it.….
I'm afraid of death... Yes, but that doesn't stop death coming..
The steamship whose machinery is broken may be brought into port and made fast to the dock. She is safe, but not sound. Repairs may last a long time.….
Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it..
You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them..
One does what one can, not what one cannot..
The past is the father of the present..
One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. G….
When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory..
The truth often does sound unconvincing..
Heather Badcock meant no harm. She never did mean harm, but there is no doubt that people like Heather Badcock (and like my old friend Alison Wilde),….
The supernatural is only the natural of which the laws are not yet understood..
Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and wi….
I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there is no scent to follow, he….
If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you..
There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating..