To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.

There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.

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.

Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple

I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn't it?

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.