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Just for a moment I hated Lymstock and its narrow boundaries, and its gossiping whispering women.

Oh! money! All the troubles in the world can be put down to money - or the lack of it.

In fact-Dr. Sheppard!

They have been in prison so long that, if the prison door stands open, they would no longer notice!

A ridiculous-looking little man. The sort of little man one could never take seriously.

Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

Most of the rich people I've known have been fairly miserable.

No," said Miss Marple. "You believed what he said. It really is very dangerous to believe people. I never have for years.

We established ourselves on the grassy knoll as Poirot had suggested,

I can look after her all right, sir," said Tommy, at exactly the same minute as Tuppence said, "I can take care of myself.

I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.

When I want to get anywhere, I usually do.

No innocent person ever has an alibi.

A susceptible child is capable of great hero worship, and a young mind can easily be obsessed by an idea which persists into adult life.

People who can be very good can be very bad too.

You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst!

One may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.

I find most of the human race extraordinarily repulsive. They probably reciprocate this feeling.

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

Hercule Poirot stared hard at Superintendent Sugden's moustache. Its luxuriance seemed to fascinate him.

Miss Marple made a ladylike noise of vexation like a cat sneezing to indicate profound disgust.

The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.

Mrs. Cavendish: I am charming to my friends one day, and forget all about them the next.

I suppose, like most young people nowadays, boredom is what you dread most in the world, and yet, I can assure you, there are worse things.

All women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.

Conversations are always dangerous, if you have something to hide.

If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

Because, you see, if the man were an invention - a fabrication - how much easier to make him disappear!

Monsieur, pray confine yourself to the point.

A more sensitive man than Canon Prescott might have felt that he was de trop.

Mary Jordan did not die naturally. It was one of us, I think I know which one.

DON'T EAT NONE OF THE PLUM PUDDING. ONE WHO WISHES YOU WELL.

Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.

How tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

Exactly. Au revoir!" Whittington

Do a thing well then leave it alone .

Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?

Yew berries?" "Berries or leaves. Highly poisonous. Taxine, of course, is the alkaloid.

Belgian stranger - all

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

But yes, exactly that. Think! With thought, all problems can be solved.

Time, thought Bobby suddenly, was a very frightening thing.

Do you know this part of the world well?

Who on earth but Poirot would have thought of a trial for murder as a restorer of conjugal happiness!

She was a very good, kind woman. I could not have continued to live in the same house with her, but I did recognize her intrinsic worth.

Ahh it rejoices the heart. Nothing here offends the eye"
~Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie)

Hate doesn't last. Love does.

One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.

A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.

Well, of course, it was not any of my business but you get very queer glimpses of life sometimes, and you can't help speculating about them.

She sipped once more.

She had a great power of love and hate but no stability. That's what's so sad for anyone, to be born with no stability.

If the little grey cells are not exercised, they grow the rust.

I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."

The human and personal element can never be ignored.

More children suffer from interference than from noninterference.

Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.

It's very dangerous to believe people, I haven't for years.
Miss Marple from A Sleeping Murder.

The trouble in this life is that you never really know where you're going.

~Andy Peters

No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and dearest.

She couldn't let the past go and she could never see the future as it really was, only as she imagined it to be.

Assumptions are dangerous things.

The law. Lady Frances, is an uncertain animal. It has twists and turns that surprise the non-legal mind.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with.

It will prove, I fear, too Herculean a task for us.

It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot

The little grey cells, my friend, the little grey cells! They told me.

Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

The truth must be quite plain, if one could just clear away the litter.

A meal should always lie lightly on the estomac," said Poirot. "It should not be so heavy as to paralyze thought.

Only mothers can't say they don't want their children and just go away.

It is so unkind--' 'Perhaps. But sometimes a compulsion comes over one to speak the truth!

Ten little soldier boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were Nine. Nine

It takes so little to undermine public confidence in a man.

These older people were the limit... They harped on things so.

Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

In the midst of tragedy we start the comedy.

Born poor doesn't mean you've got to stay poor. Money's queer. It goes where it's wanted.

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

Is no one incapable of murder?

Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them.

A very correct butler opened the door, with just the right amount of gloom in his bearing.

One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

If Hori were to die, I should not forget! Hori is a song in my heart for ever ... That means-that there is no more death ...

The truth often does sound unconvincing.

The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

Death in the Clouds

Ulick Norman Owen - Una Nancy Owen - each time, that is to say, U. N. Owen. Or by a slight stretch of fancy, UNKNOWN!

The Coroner said graciously:
"I have heard of you, M. Poirot," and Poirot made an unsuccessful attempt to look modest.

It is fundamentals that matter
not the trappings. (Alice Cunningham)

Spider's Web * The Unexpected

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