I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue. - Agatha Christie

That’s the depressing part of places like this. Guest houses run by broken-down gentlepeople. They’re full of failures — of people who have never got anywhere and never will get anywhere, of people who — who have been defeated and broken by life, of people who are old and tired and finished.

always bear in mind that the person who speaks may be lying

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.