Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

I've got an uncle myself. Nobody should be held responsible for their uncles. Nature's little throwbacks - that's how I look at it.

Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.

I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.

As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.

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

Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.