The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)

by Agatha Christie

When my son Frank married I turned over half my worldly goods to him then and there. I believe in that. Don’t let your children wait until you’re dead. They want the money when they’re young, not when they’re middle-aged.

Gentlemen so easily feel neglected.

‘Gentlemen,’ she said with her old-maid’s way of referring to the opposite sex as though it were a species of wild animal, ‘are frequently not as level-headed as they seem.’