You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.

I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.

Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good.

Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.' That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.