Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot

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

I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.

Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express

Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.