If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

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.

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)