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a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

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]

All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.

a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an oyster all their lives seem positively to relish causing trouble when they themselves shall be comfortably dead.

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)

An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.

And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!

And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.

And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-" "Ah, no, my friend-" "From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together - by death.

Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.

Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

Assumptions are dangerous things.

As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.

At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.

Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.

Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.

Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.

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.

But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

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.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

Desperate ills need desperate remedies.

Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?

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.

Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don’t you?” “Of course I believe in the truth,” said Rhoda, staring. “Yes, you say that, but perhaps you haven’t thought about it. The truth hurts sometimes – and destroys one’s illusions.” “I’d rather have it all the same.” said Rhoda. “So would I. But I don’t know that we’re wise.” Mrs. Oliver; Rhoda Dawes

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.

Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

Everything has got its right size. When it is its right size and well run it's the tops.

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.