Such an error, one finds, to do things for the best. They usually seem to be such unpleasant things.

- Gladys Mitchell

In a sense, all murderers are lunatics. Killing is a not a sane reaction to the circumstances of life.

- Gladys Mitchell

I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable.

- Gladys Mitchell