If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Poirot, I said. I have been thinking.An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.
And yet, said Poirot, suppose an accident-Ah, no, my friend-From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together – by death.
Where do one’s fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?
A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can’t help looking like a sheep.
Agatha Christie
No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought?–Poirot
That’s peace – real peace. To come to the end – not to have to go on… Yes, peace.