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

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

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.

Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.

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.