Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple

Ideas are like everything else. They've got to be marketed.

But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.

all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.

I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.