Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Mr. Quin Quotes

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

I mean that success has come early. And that is dangerous. Always dangerous.

The longer the time that has elapsed, the more things fall into proportion. One sees them in their true relationship to one another.

Thought is yours only. Nobody can alter or influence the use you mean to make of it.

The eye is diverted from the real business, it is caught by the spectacular action that means nothing--nothing at all.