The innocent must not suffer.
His poems have no capital letters in them, which is, I believe, the essence of modernity.
Inspector Hardcastle walked in manfully. Unfortunately for him he was one of those men who have cat allergy. As usually happens on these occasions all the cats immediately made for him. One jumped on his knee, another rubbed affectionately against his trousers. Detective Inspector Hardcastle, who was a brave man, set his lips and endured.
Human nature, dear, is very much the same everywhere. It is more difficult to observe it closely in a city, that is all.
Yes,” said Miss Marple. “The children of Lucifer are often beautiful – And as we know, they flourish like the green bay tree.
Living alone, with no one to consult or talk to, one might easily become melodramatic, and imagine things which had no foundation on fact.
But one thing is certain, he is the master criminal of this age. He controls a marvellous organization. Most of the Peace propaganda during the war was originated and financed by him.
It was due to his tact, to his judgment, to his sympathetic manipulation of human beings that the atmosphere had always been such a happy one... If there was a change, therefore, the change must be due to the man at the top.
The real excitement of being a girl – of being, that is, a woman in embryo – was that life was such a wonderful gamble. You didn’t know what was going to happen to you. That was what made being a woman so exciting. No worry about what you should be or do – Biology would decide. You were waiting for The Man, and when the man came, he would change your entire life, you can say what you like, that is an exciting point of view to hold at the threshold of life.
As one journeys through life,” said Poirot, “one finds more and more that people are often interested in things that are none of their own business. Even more so than they are in things that could be considered as their own business.
Women, in my experience, if they once reach the determination to commit suicide, usually wish to reveal the state of mind that led to the fatal action. They covet the limelight.
But all the same, it is true what I say – artificial conditions bring about their natural reaction.
Fellow has the wrong clothes and all that. French chap-or Belgian. Queer fellow, but he’s got the goods all right.
Whether he acted rightly or not, I have never been sure. It was the future of a child that was at stake. A child, he felt, ought to be given the benefit of a doubt.
They knew, none better, the havoc caused by a good-looking young man to the hearts of adolescent girls.
It’s odd, isn’t it, why farce so often seems to get mixed up with tragedy?
She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read. Wonderful luck that was, Mrs. Oliver thought to herself.
Ah, I see you are an actress, Miss Marple, as well as an avenger.
But it is one of the great consolations in nature that a man, however unattractive, will find that he is attractive – to some woman.
All this red tape and form-filling. That’s what comes of a bureaucratic state. Can’t go where you like and do as you please anymore! Somebody’s always asking questions.