fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.

People who can be very good can be very bad too.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're sorry for themselves. Self-pity is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in the world today.

Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.