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

At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.

I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life! That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike and some aren't. Some men are sentimental and muddle-headed, others are clear-headed and logical. There are just different types of brains.

The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

That is what I mean. A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one turns the taps and fills it, one gets in, one gets out and ghoosh - ghoosh - ghoosh, the water goes down the waste pipe!" "M. Poirot are you quite mad?" "No, I am extremely sane.

... nothing is so boring as devotion.