Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement

I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting... I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body in the face. It is the means that I am interested in. I do not usually describe the end, which is often a corpse.

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.

There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.

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

There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.

You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!