Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was a girl, so as to be more knowledgeable on the subject, he said, 'Don't you realize that at this moment you know more about prehistoric pottery than any woman in England?'

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!

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

... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.

Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]

They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.