I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

Ideas are like everything else. They've got to be marketed.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.

fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.