The rottenness comes from within.

It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

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

I'm afraid of death... Yes, but that doesn't stop death coming.

Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express

Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.