No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot

If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.

He laughs best who laughs at the end.

Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.

I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.

I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.