There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.

Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?

It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.