Fear is incomplete knowledge.

To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.

There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.

Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that.

One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.