I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.

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

You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

... obsessions are always dangerous.

... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men' -- you have lost the two most valuable qualities we have ever tried to attain: -- humility and brotherhood.

Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple