It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.
Agatha ChristieYour not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with.
Agatha ChristieWomen can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.
Agatha ChristieI 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.
Agatha Christie