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

I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.

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

"I think you're begging the question," said Haydock, "and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where six men have white hats and six men have black hats and you have to work it out by mathematics how likely it is that the hats will get mixed up and in what proportion. If you start thinking about things like that, you would go round the bend. Let me assure you of that!"

You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.

My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)