Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.

I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.

Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple

Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.

Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.