If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

Things never come when they are expected.

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.

You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst!

I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know..."

My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.