There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.

One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.

One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

Things never come when they are expected.