No innocent person ever has an alibi.

I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting... I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body in the face. It is the means that I am interested in. I do not usually describe the end, which is often a corpse.

Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.

There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.

It's very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.