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

To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived.

I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

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

I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.

I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.