“What good is money if it can’t buy happiness?”
“But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.”
“Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.”
“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
“Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.”
“Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.”
“Fear is incomplete knowledge”
“To every problem, there is a most simple solution.”
“When you find that people are not telling you the truth… look out!”
“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.”
“Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend.”
“If one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly see anybody.”
“Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.”
“Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.”
“In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth”
“Talk and tea is his specialty,” said Giles. “He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.”
“Time is the best killer.”
When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.”
“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
“If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”
“At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.”
“The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.”
“It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.”
“It’s like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.”
“I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.”
“The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes.”
“Very few of us are what we seem.”
“I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.”
“As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.”
“I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps–at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, ‘all there.”
“People should be interested in books, not their authors.”
“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.”
“The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.”
“People who can be very good can be very bad too.”
“You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.”
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
“Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.”
“One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.”
“A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can’t help looking like a sheep.”
“The young people think the old people are fools — but the old people know the young people are fools.”
“But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.”
“One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.”
“I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.”
“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.”
“You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”
“Fear is incomplete knowledge.”
“A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves”
“If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”
“Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.”
“I’ve always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.”
“I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalize. Generalizations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.”
“In the midst of life, we are in death.”
“A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attention and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can’t help looking like a sheep.”
“Everybody always knows something,” said Adam, “even if it’s something they don’t know they know.”
“An appreciative listener is always stimulating.”
“Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory – let the theory go.”
“Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.”
“Two people rarely see the same thing.”
“Nothing turns out quite in the way that you thought it would when you are sketching out notes for the first chapter, or walking about muttering to yourself and seeing a story unroll.”
“One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.”
“Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.”
“Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.”
“Everybody said, “Follow your heart”. I did, it got broken”
“It’s so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.”
