A susceptible child is capable of great hero worship, and a young mind can easily be obsessed by an idea which persists into adult life.
The moral character of the victim has nothing to do with it! A human being who has exercised the right of private judgment and taken the life of another human being is not safe to exist amongst the community.
It has been my experience, that women possess little or no pride where love affairs are concerned. Pride is a quality often on their lips, but not apparent in their actions.
He’s like all the rest of these people; they make inflammatory speeches of enormous length, solely for political purposes, and then wish they hadn’t.
Her words held all the pointed innuendo that elderly ladies are able to achieve with the minimum of actual statement.
Say, gentlemen, this business is getting on my nerves. Murder and the snow and all, and nothing doing. Just hanging about and killing time. I’d like to get busy after someone or something.” “The true Western spirit of hustle,” said Poirot with a smile.
I’m always getting forgotten,” said the grizzled doctor sadly. “I must have a very inconspicuous personality.
The evidence of history is against you. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. It is a question of getting the true perspective, of seeing things in proportion.
Watch and pray,” he said. “Watch and pray. The day of judgment is at hand.
These older people were the limit... They harped on things so.
Pleased to meet you, I’m sure,” he observed as he sniffed round our ankles. “Excuse the noise, won’t you, but I have my job to do. Got to be careful who we let in, you know. But it’s a dull life and I’m really quite pleased to see a visitor. Dogs of your own, I fancy?
I think there’s something heavenly about numbers, anyway.
By Jove, Poirot,’ I exclaimed, ‘did you see that young goddess?’ Poirot.
Jonas knew for a fact that it had been purchased by the Admiralty with a view to carrying out some very hush-hush experiments!
The eye is diverted from the real business, it is caught by the spectacular action that means nothing – nothing at all.
Now we can talk,” said Poirot. “When I say that, I mean, really, that I shall talk.
Oude zonden hebben lange schaduwen.
There is much evil in the world.
But facts are facts, and if one is proved to be wrong, one must just be humble about it and start again.
What was this passion that attacked women for knitting under the most unpropitious conditions? A woman did not look her best knitting; the absorption, the glassy eyes, the restless, busy fingers! One needed the agility of a wild cat, and the will-power of a Napoleon to manage to knit in a crowded tube, but women managed it! If they succeeded in obtaining a seat, out came a miserable little strip of shrimp pink and click, click went the pins!