People who can be very good can be very bad too.

Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple

It's very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.

Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.

You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.