Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?

If only-if only, Hastings, you would part your hair in the middle instead of at the side! What a difference it would make to the symmetry of your appearance. And your moustache. If you must have a moustache, let it be a real moustache-a thing of beauty such as mine.

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

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