To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.

fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

"I think you're begging the question," said Haydock, "and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where six men have white hats and six men have black hats and you have to work it out by mathematics how likely it is that the hats will get mixed up and in what proportion. If you start thinking about things like that, you would go round the bend. Let me assure you of that!"

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

Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.

If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.