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 often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

It's very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.

Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)