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.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]

The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.

there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.