Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort. - Agatha Christie

I am not very clever about Americanisms — and I understand they change very quickly.

Marriage, I have always held, is a serious affair, to be entered into only after long deliberation and forethought, and suitability of tastes and inclinations is the most important consideration.

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.