all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.
Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else.
A man doesn't wasnt to feel that a woman cares more for him than he cares for her. He doesn't want to feel owned, body and soul. It's that damned possessive attitude. This man is mine---he belongs to me! He wants to get away --- to get free. He wants to own his woman; he doesn't want her to own him.(Simon Boyle)
Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.
I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back.
If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.
The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.
No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.
To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]
To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.
You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.
how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.
One place is very like another.
Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?
We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then.
The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.
I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.
if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.
Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will befall them?' 'Good heavens, Poirot,' I cried, 'this is a matter of life and death. What does it matter what happens to our clothes?' 'You have no sense of proportion Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder.
Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.
"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."
But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.
You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.' That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.
There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.
Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot
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