Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.

Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.

Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.

You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst!

Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.