A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.
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.
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.
With thought, all problems can be resolved.
People should be interested in books, not their authors.
The past is the father of the present.
Time is the best killer.
I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.
It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.
Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.
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.
When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.
One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.
Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.
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.
Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.
To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.
Those who never think of money need a great deal of it.
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.
One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.
Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.
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