there is evil everywhere under the sun.

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.

You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

The first time you do a thing is always exciting.