“I am all that there is of the most real.”

“I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.”

“Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.”

“The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.”

“I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.”

“Conversations are always dangerous, if you have something to hide.”

“That is why most great love stories are tragedies.”

“Curious thing, rooms. Tell you quite a lot about the people who live in them.”

“Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.”

“The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.”

“Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.”

“One must make one's own mistakes”

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

“For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away …”

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

“Fear, what a strange thing fear was...”

“No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.”

“The past is the father of the present.”

“I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.” s on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wild flowers will come up where you are.

“One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.”

“Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts.

“Two people rarely see the same thing.”

“People who can be very good can be very bad too.”

“You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.”