The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.

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

What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.

If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.

No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot

At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.