“There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.”

“But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round them, and the people who fall into them and get out and know they're there because of that. They both come to the same conclusions but they don't have quite the same point of view.”

“I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look after them.”

“A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which the forthrightness of the Victorians can give a modern.”

“Albert Campion: 'I’m serious!'Lugg: 'That’s unhealthy in itself.”

“The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it.”

“She rose and followed her bust from the room.”