That’s peace – real peace. To come to the end – not to have to go on… Yes, peace.

Oh, I’m not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it’s very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they’ve taken away everything...

I think you are wise. You haven’t got what it takes for this job. You are like Rosemary’s father. He couldn’t understand Lenin’s dictum: ‘Away with softness.'”I thought of Hercule Poirot’s words.”I’m content,” I said,...

Wwhat the hell? Weve all got to die sometime!

Why shouldn’t I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they’re loved and wanted and then show them that it’s all a...

Vous eprouves trop d’emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will...

How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work inorder to escape the strain of having to think.

¡El dinero es ridículo! ¡El crédito es ridículo! ¡Convenga usted en que la vida tiene mucho de ridículo!

… human nature is much the same everywhere…” – Ms. Marple, The Thumb Mark of St. Peter, Pg. 69

I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty—to one’s friends and one’s family and one’s caste.

It’s a rotten job, but somebody’s got to do it.

There! Now we’re friends!” declared the minx. “Say you’re sorry about my sister -“”I am desolated!””That’s a good boy!

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

There are questions that you don’t ask because you’re afraid of the answers to them.

What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one’s house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.

A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves

To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

The popular view that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

I’m sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. ‘The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life’ That sort of thing. It’s not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike and...

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop…suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

Bottled, was he?” Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman’s sympathy for alcoholic excess. “Oh, well, can’t judge a fellow by what he does when he’s drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put...

The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes.

Poirot thought it not quite professional to begin a routine working day before ten.

When the sun shines you cannot see the moon,” he said. “But when the sun is gone ah,when the sun is gone.

Human nature is always interesting… And it’s curious to see how certain types always tend to act in exactly the same way.” – Miss Marple, The Herb of Death, Pg. 167

Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.