People should be interested in books, not their authors.

If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.

To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.

Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.

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.

You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.

If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!