Use your eyes. Use your ears. Use your brains — -if you've got any. And, if necessary — act. - Agatha Christie

Heather Badcock meant no harm. She never did mean harm, but there is no doubt that people like Heather Badcock (and like my old friend Alison Wilde), are capable of doing a lot of harm because they lack - not kindness, they have kindness - but any real consideration for the way their actions may affect other people. She though always of what an action meant to her, never sparing a thought to what it might mean to somebody else.

Men — ’ said Miss Williams, and stopped.
As a rich property owner says ‘Bolsheviks’ — as an earnest Communist says ‘Capitalists!’ — as a good housewife says ‘Blackbeetles’ — so did Miss Williams say ‘Men!

I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.