Enemies! People these days don’t have enemies! Not English people!

Eh bien, then, you are crazy, or appear crazy or you think you are crazy, and possibly you may be crazy.

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 to, don’t much like what you’re...

But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd...

Mr. Satterthwaite looked cheered. Suddenly an idea struck him. His jaw fell. “My goodness,” he cried, “I’ve only just realized it! That rascal, with his poisoned cocktail! Anyone might have drunk it! It might have...

One always has hope for human nature

Got on! Got on! It’s not a question of getting on. That’s the wrong view altogether. The Classics aren’t a ladder leading to quick success.

Where do one’s fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?

Her sleep was enlivened by several dreams. One where Professor Wanstead’s bushy eyebrows fell off because they were not his own eyebrows, but false ones. As she woke again, her first impression was that which...

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

Aku benci melihat orang yang merasa puas diri. Hal itu membangkitkan semua naluri jahatku.

Where there is murder, anything can happen.

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory—let the theory go.

Bagi sebagian orang kebenaran itu penting, sebab mereka dapat menerimanya. Mereka dapat menghadapi kebenaran dengan tabah – ketabahan yang hanya dimiliki orang-orang yang mengharapkan kehidupan yang cerah.

Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

A man in love is an awful sight.

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can’t do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they’ve seen it often...

But when you say crazy, that describes very well what the general appearance may be to ordinary, everyday people.

I mean, what can you say about how you write your books? What I mean is, first you’ve got to think of something, and then when you’ve thought of it you’ve got to force yourself...

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

When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.

Sesuatu yang baik tak pernah terlalu banyak, ketahuilah itu.

Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined—sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured—so cleverly that it has...

It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.

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

I like to see an angry Englishman,” said Poirot. “They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.

Kebencian bisa membuat orang jadi buta– ya jadi buta. Tapi orang buta pun mungkin bisa menikam tepat di jantung.

I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim-it is the picture of a girl watching...

That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

Money, money, money! I think about money morning, noon and night! I dare say it’s mercenary of me, but there it is

Why didn’t they ask the Evans?

The young people think that the old people are fools; but the old people know that the young people are fools!

Don’t you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child?Miss Bulstrode’s thoughts.

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 done for them – and, that...

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

Toată lumea se așteaptă ca educația să fie un drept fundamental și nu pun mare preț pe ea c nd o primesc!

the elephant can remember.

HC: You think I shall differently tomorrow? [about suicide]J: People do.HC: Yes, perhaps. If you’re doing things in a mood of hot despair. But when it’s cold despair, it’s different. I’ve nothing to live for,...

There is always a brave new world. But only, you know, for very special people. The lucky ones. The ones who carry the making of that world within themselves.

E: When one has at last reached freedom, can one even contemplate going back?HC: But if it is not possible to go back, or to choose to go back, then it is not freedom!~Ericsson; Hilary...

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.

To know when to use the truth is the essence of successful deception

Murder has made you practically one of the family.

Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one’s love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting,...

What good is money if it can’t buy happiness?

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

In an English village, you turn over a stone and have no idea what will crawl out.Miss Marple

Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.