Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

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

Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back.

Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.

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