An appreciative listener is always stimulating.
Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.
To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.
Things never come when they are expected.
Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.
Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.
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.
Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.
It's very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.
Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
With thought, all problems can be resolved.
There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.
You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.
fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.
Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]
You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.
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