I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there is no scent to follow, he noses around - seeking always something that is not very nice.
I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.
Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.
Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.
It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.
Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.
It is curious - but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. ... Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.
More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
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.
I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
there is evil everywhere under the sun.
To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.
You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.
How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.
These little grey cells. It is up to them.
too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.
People who can be very good can be very bad too.
It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.
It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.
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 a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.
It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.
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