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

"I think you're begging the question," said Haydock, "and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where six men have white hats and six men have black hats and you have to work it out by mathematics how likely it is that the hats will get mixed up and in what proportion. If you start thinking about things like that, you would go round the bend. Let me assure you of that!"

Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.

To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

One place is very like another.

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.