Who are you? You don't belong to the police?' 'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

Very few of us are what we seem.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

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

Fear is incomplete knowledge.

Books are a habit-forming drug.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.

They're Lares. House gods.""House gods, " Percy said. "Like...smaller than real gods, but larger than apartment gods?

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Law is mind without reason.

The time will come when you will be forced to make a choice,” Hanalea said. “When that time comes, choose love.

All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy to specify

I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, that I should the least wish to resemble.

Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.

Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance