If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.

In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!

That is what I mean. A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one turns the taps and fills it, one gets in, one gets out and ghoosh - ghoosh - ghoosh, the water goes down the waste pipe!" "M. Poirot are you quite mad?" "No, I am extremely sane.