An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing ... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.

Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

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

Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.

The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.

all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.