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

too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.

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

Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.

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

It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.