“There is the natural liar...Always says the thing that sounds best.”

“My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)”

“There is, as Miss Marple would say, a lot of human nature in all of us.”

“Why the worst women should always attract the best men is something hard to fathom!”

“I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there.”

“Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.”

“Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things...”