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

a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.

Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.

Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.