The world is full of good people who do bad things!
Agatha Christie
Profession: Author Nationality: British
If Hori were to die, I should not forget! Hori is a song in my heart for ever... That means-that there is no more death...
These little grey cells. It is up to them.
In some ways I really think that men are beasts.
Can one build an honest house on dishonest foundation? I do not know. But I do know that I want to try.
I was born to live dangerously.
Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.
Do a thing well then leave it alone .
Kathrine had seldom had that useful thing, a 'day off'. 'But in a way, being tied physically gives you lots of scope mentally. You're always free to think.
If you must be Sherlock Holmes," she observed, "I'll get you a nice little syringe and a bottle labelled cocaine, but for God's sake leave that violin alone.
What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.
I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me.
I suppose I saw photos of him in the papers, but I wouldn't recognize my own mother when a press photographer had done with her.
If one could order a crime as one does a dinner, what would you choose? . . . Let's review the menu. Robbery? Frogery? No, I think not. Rather too vegetarian. It must be murder—red-blooded murder—with trimmings, of course.
It was a fantastic moment. In it, Anthony Marston seemed to be something more than mortal. Afterwards more than one of those present remembered that moment.