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

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.