And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.

It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot

Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.

Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.

if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.