Eva Matijevic

“Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking. It is also an infallible means of discovering that which he wishes to hide.”
― Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

“Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.”
― Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

“In my day if a man was mad he was mad and we didn’t look about for scientific terms to soften it down.”
― Agatha Christie, The ABC Murders

“What a pity that I am not an honest man!”
― Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief