The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.
Assumptions are dangerous things.
The first time you do a thing is always exciting.
If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!
In old days the public didn’t really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.
Things never come when they are expected.
Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.
I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.
Oh, no, I’m not brave. When a thing is certain, there’s nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.
More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.
If you’ve had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you...
It’s a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything.
I think, myself, that one’s memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself.
What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one’s house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.
Why shouldn’t I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they’re loved and wanted and then show them that it’s all a sham.
To count – really and truly to count – a woman must have goodness or brains.
One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.
One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.
I am all that there is of the most real.
Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.