Wonderful things, horses. Never know what they will do, or won't do.

I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

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

I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.