What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.

Who are you? You don't belong to the police?' 'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.

If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.

How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.

I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.