If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.

Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.

No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.

To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived.

Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.

Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was a girl, so as to be more knowledgeable on the subject, he said, 'Don't you realize that at this moment you know more about prehistoric pottery than any woman in England?'