The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

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

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.