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

I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! . . . But-incongruous as it may seem to some-I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.

Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.

It is curious - but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. ... Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.