Every woman makes a fool of herself once in her life.
Ah, mais c’est anglais ça, everything in black and white, everything clear-cut and well defined. But life, it is not like that, Mademoiselle. There are the things that are not yet, but which cast their shadow before.
A mirror shows the truth, but everyone stands in a different place for looking into the mirror.
Trains are relentless things, aren’t they, Monsieur Poirot? People are murdered and die, but they go on just the same.
To make a success of humanity, we must profit by the lessons of those below us in the animal kingdom.
There is one thing no man can do, and that is to get a woman to listen to reason. Somehow or other, they don’t seem to have any kind of sense.
There are three things that cannot be hurried – le bon Dieu, Nature, and old people.
The expected has happened, and when the expected happens, it always causes me emotion.
The best way of hiding a thing is by sending it away by the post.
Talk of woman’s instinct – why, it is well known all the world over that a woman is the surest mark for any rascally swindler. Not one in ten of them knows a scoundrel when she meets one.
Some people, when they come into money, seem to attach undue importance to it.
My God! the things one says – never dreaming or knowing they will come true.