An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.

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.

If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

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.

Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.