Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.

I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them.

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

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.