They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's.

Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, everything is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scrape here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking to do-clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth.

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

Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.

Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.