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.

The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.

Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.

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

The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.

Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.

There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.