Poirot did not enter into a controversy. He had already learnt that every single individual had a different version of the theme “What did we fight the war for?
Sentimentality, Mrs Revel. You know it is. Love isn’t a drug that you take to blind you to your surroundings – you can make it that, yes, but it’s a pity – love can be a lot more than that.
If Miss Debenham is innocent, why did she conceal that fact? Why did she tell me that she had never been in America?
Meanwhile we have learnt something, and to know is to be prepared.
Calgary sighed. Things were never, he thought, the way you imagined them to be. Every day he found himself less attracted to the man whose name he had taken such trouble to vindicate. He was almost coming to understand and share the point of view which had so astounded him at Sunny Point.
One man in a thousand can see the moons of Jupiter. Because the other nine hundred and ninety-nine can’t see them there’s no reason to doubt that the moons of Jupiter exist, and certainly no reason for calling the thousandth man a lunatic.
But when you say crazy, that describes very well what the general appearance may be to ordinary, everyday people.
For, as Mr. Ferguson was saying at that minute in Luxor, it is not the past that matters but the future.
I’ve got a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise. A beastly thing, compromise, but it steals upon you as you near middle age.
Kathrine had seldom had that useful thing, a ‘day off’. ‘But in a way, being tied physically gives you lots of scope mentally. You’re always free to think.
One needs some really good food and drink after all the magnificent blood and gloom of Macbeth. Shakespeare always makes me ravenous.
She looked, I decided this morning, much more like a horse than a human being. In fact she would have been a very nice horse with a little grooming.
The caught murderer is necessarily one of the failures. He is second-rate.
Bad habit, lunch. A banana and a water biscuit is all any sane healthy man should need in the middle of the day.
Nineteen, twenty, my plate’s empty.’ But the reader’s plate is full.
Twenty minutes’ work after breakfast every morning keeps the flag going to perfection. You have nothing to complain of, have you?” “Your.
And for five long hours the little man sat motionless, blinking his eyelids like a cat, his green eyes flickering and becoming steadily greener and greener.
Well, medicine was mostly faith-healing when it came to it. And he had a good manner – he could inspire hope and belief.
And the Minister strode rapidly away.
Family strength is a marvellous thing.