It's very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.

I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.

Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.

there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.

One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.

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

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.