Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?

The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized.

If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.

When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!