From an early age I knew very strongly the lust to kill.

marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.

all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.

I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.

Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.