There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. Votes: 10
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood. Votes: 6
Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that. Votes: 0
To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious. Votes: 0
Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple Votes: 0
It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance. Votes: 0
Why didn't they ask the Evans? Votes: 0
Very few of us are what we seem. Votes: 0
Fear is incomplete knowledge Votes: 0
Books are a habit-forming drug. Votes: 0
Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go. Votes: 0
Be sure thy sin will find thee out. Votes: 0
Time is the best killer. Votes: 0
It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to. Votes: 0
Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence. Votes: 0
Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess. Votes: 0
One must make one's own mistakes Votes: 0
The rottenness comes from within. Votes: 0
Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool. Votes: 0
One place is very like another. Votes: 0
The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. Votes: 0
... obsessions are always dangerous. Votes: 0
Hate doesn't last. Love does. Votes: 0
It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap. Votes: 0
Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know. Votes: 0
The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later. Votes: 0
Assumptions are dangerous things. Votes: 0
I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has. Votes: 0