Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation..

Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?.

How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are p….

... obsessions are always dangerous..

I am all that there is of the most real..

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….

Those who never think of money need a great deal of it..

More children suffer from interference than from non-interference..

To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchan….

What good is money if it can't buy happiness?.

You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!.

a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an oyster all their lives seem….

When a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep..

I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash..

The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me..

Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas..

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn..

There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sof….

If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid..

I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know...".

I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach….