When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.

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.

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

... obsessions are always dangerous.

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.

For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.

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.