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

It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

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

Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

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