Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.

we dislike those we've injured.

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

The worst has happened ... it's rather liberating.

We don't say a man's ill if he's crazy about sex, if he can't get enough sex. Why should a woman be different?

To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.