The past is the father of the present.
From an early age I knew very strongly the lust to kill...
You agree – I’m sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.
If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.
Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.
No innocent person ever has an alibi.
Where do one’s fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?
Everybody said, “Follow your heart”. I did, it got broken.
There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. – Hercule Poirot.
Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.
But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.
There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.
I don’t know. I don’t know at all. And that’s what’s frightening the life out of me. To have no idea...
No sign, so far, of anything sinister – but I live in hope.
You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them – and, that way she missed love.
Poirot: Do not allow Hate into your heart, for it will make a home there. Jackie: If Love cannot live there, Hate works just as well.
The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.
You’ll be glad too, when the end comes.
You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!
There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.