In the midst of tragedy we start the comedy. 
No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and dearest. 
The trouble in this life is that you never really know where you're going.~Andy Peters
Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it. 
The human and personal element can never be ignored. 
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. 
Ahh it rejoices the heart. Nothing here offends the eye"~Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie)
Hate doesn't last. Love does. 
Born poor doesn't mean you've got to stay poor. Money's queer. It goes where it's wanted. 
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. 
It is fundamentals that matter not the trappings. (Alice Cunningham)
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. 
One never quite allows for the moron in our midst. 
Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them. 
Only mothers can't say they don't want their children and just go away. 
Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool. 
The little grey cells, my friend, the little grey cells! They told me. 
It will prove, I fear, too Herculean a task for us. 
Spider's Web * The Unexpected 
Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with. 
It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot 
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. 
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. 
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. 
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? 
A very correct butler opened the door, with just the right amount of gloom in his bearing. 
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. 
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.
The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. 
She sipped once more. 
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. 
A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy. 
One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice. 
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. 
Who on earth but Poirot would have thought of a trial for murder as a restorer of conjugal happiness! 
If the little grey cells are not exercised, they grow the rust. 
Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living. 
"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters." 
More children suffer from interference than from noninterference. 
It's very dangerous to believe people, I haven't for years.Miss Marple from A Sleeping Murder.
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.