It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot

Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.

It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.

Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.