She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

The first time you do a thing is always exciting.

If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.

You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing ... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.

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

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

Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.