When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.

When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.

Hate doesn't last. Love does.

At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.

It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.