I am in my own line a celebrated person – I may say a most celebrated person. My gifts, in fact, are unequalled!
Different kinds of danger suit different kinds of people...
Very difficult, mon ami. But as you know well, difficulties rejoice the heart of Hercule Poirot.
I speak to you for you will understand. We bought that screen with more than money – with love. For love of it, because it was beautiful and unique, we went without other things, things we needed and missed. These other Chinese pieces my husband speaks of, those we should buy with money only, we should not pay away anything of ourselves.
I don’t like anyone who comes and dies in my house on purpose to annoy me,” said Lord Caterham obstinately.
Women are like that. When they are enraged they have great strength.
O maid most dear, I am not here. I have no place, no part, No dwelling more by sea nor shore, But only in thy heart.” He.
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing; Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness.
Sometimes I think there are people who only read books in the hope of finding mistakes in them.
Mr Goby turned over another leaf of his notebook and selected his confidante: he chose an electric radiator...
Bland reflected that the local verdict seemed to be the comfortable and probably agelong one of attributing every tragic occurrence to unspecified foreigners.
I wanted to kill... yes, I wanted to kill. But- incongruous as it may be to some- I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.
He had false teeth that clicked when he ate. Many men have been hated for less.
Only in England is the coffee so atrocious,’ he remarked. ‘On the continent, they understand how important it is for the digestion that it should be properly made.
The delicate exotic flower has to have the shelter of the greenhouse – it cannot endure the cold winds. It is the common weed that thrives in the wintry air – but it is not to be prized higher on that account.
He has a kind of genius for going to the root of the matter, and right up to the end no one has any idea of what he is really thinking.
My Great-aunt Jane always used to say that a true lady was neither shocked nor surprised at anything that might happen,” I murmured dreamily. “I endeavour to live up to her precepts.
To begin with, nobody actually heard the shot. Two or three women say they did because they want to think they did – but that’s all there is to it.
Ah, but you must have a Christmas uncomplicated by murder.
Always looks as though she’s seeing things other people don’t see. But she’s got a lot of character. She makes herself felt, as you might say.