“Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.”
― Nemesis
― Nemesis
“Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes-they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.... The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves that they don't give a damn.”
― Sparkling Cyanide
― Sparkling Cyanide
“Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple”
― A Caribbean Mystery
― A Caribbean Mystery
“You're a man milliner, Poirot. I never notice what people have on."
"You should join a nudist colony”
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"You should join a nudist colony”
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