When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps – at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, ’all there.
Fear is incomplete knowledge.
Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can’t do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they’ve seen it often before.
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
What good is money if it can’t buy happiness?
I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
These little grey cells. It is up to them.
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
If one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly see anybody.
There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn’t really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We’re so busy punishing ourselves.
There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.
It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
The young people think the old people are fools – but the old people know the young people are fools.
At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.
I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness – to save oneself trouble.
When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.