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.

Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.

To be a classic, a novel should be original.

We no more forget the faces of our enemies than of those we love.

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

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

Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.