Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)

by Agatha Christie

“How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.”

How absurd to call youth the time of happiness—youth, the time of greatest vulnerability!

“Une qui aime et un qui se laisse aimer. Yes, I wonder too.”

“Love is not everything, Mademoiselle,” Poirot said gently. “It is only when we are young that we think it is.”

“On ne prend pas les mouches avec le vinaigre.”

“La vie est vaine. Un peu d’amour, Un peu de haine, Et puis bonjour. La vie est brève. Un peu d’espoir, Un peu de rêve, Et puis bonsoir.”

They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.