Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.

I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.

Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.

Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken