The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them.

the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.

Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.