Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.

And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.

Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.

Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.

The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.