I believe the present matters — - not the past! The past must go. If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it. We see it in … - Agatha Christie

A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves

Les femmes,” generalized Poirot. “They are marvellous! They invent haphazard — and by miracle they are right. Not that it is that, really. Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing that they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together — and they call the result intuition.

That was the worst of Dr Reilly. You never knew whether he was joking or not. He always said things in the same slow melancholy way — but half the time there was a twinkle underneath it.