Agatha christie

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.

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.

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Very few of us are what we seem.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.

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.

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.