I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me.

In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day's work....where crime is concerned, she's the goods.

The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.