Assumptions are dangerous things.

You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.

You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

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

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.