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And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.
The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.
An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.
the science of tomorrow is the supernatural of today.
Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.
Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
Those who never think of money need a great deal of it.
The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.
One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.
From an early age I knew very strongly the lust to kill.
"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."
People should be interested in books, not their authors.
I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.
No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.
Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken
They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.
There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.
The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.
It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.
Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.
Ideas are like everything else. They've got to be marketed.
A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.
too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.
Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.
Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them.
Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.
When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.
At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.
But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.
One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.
It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.
I'm afraid of death... Yes, but that doesn't stop death coming.
you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.
Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?
It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!
Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.
The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.
When a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.
To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.