Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.

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

Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.

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

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.

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