Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.

There's nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation.

"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

One place is very like another.

I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.

There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.