Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.
Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.
No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot
Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.
... obsessions are always dangerous.
There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.
Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.
That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think.
We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.
To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.
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.
You'll be glad too, when the end comes.
In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)
I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.
A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves
Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.
Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.
The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.
Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, everything is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scrape here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking to do-clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth.
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 things.
If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.
If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.
Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.
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