One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.

I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.

More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.

Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.

How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.

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