... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.
Agatha ChristieI live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.
Agatha ChristiePoirot said placidly, โOne does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this โ โ he tapped his egg-shaped head โ โthis, that functions!
Agatha Christie