It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!

If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.

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.

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

If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.

To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good.