Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

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.

It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.

Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.