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

Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else.

I am all that there is of the most real.

Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.

In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

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