Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.
Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.
I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)
To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.
In the midst of life, we are in death.