Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes? - Agatha Christie

I have the little idea, my friend, that this is a crime very carefully planned and staged. It is a far-sighted, long-headed crime. It is not — how shall I express it? — a Latin crime. It is a crime that shows traces of a cool, resourceful, deliberate brain — I think an Anglo-Saxon brain.

Remember, he was a fanatic, and there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.

We think with horror now of the days when we burnt witches. I believe the day will come when we will shudder to think that we ever hanged criminals.