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

There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.

I'm afraid of death... Yes, but that doesn't stop death coming.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived.

If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.