That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.

Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else.

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

That is what I mean. A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one turns the taps and fills it, one gets in, one gets out and ghoosh - ghoosh - ghoosh, the water goes down the waste pipe!" "M. Poirot are you quite mad?" "No, I am extremely sane.

Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.