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

My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)

There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way --- whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of.

Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.

Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?

When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.

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