Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #22)

by Agatha Christie

quite content to bring out a little stock of platitudes and offer them with an air of novelty.

bit of a liar—the imaginative kind that’s not so much deceitful, but just has to make a good story out of everything.”

so far preferred in life to avoid facing an awkward truth whenever it is possible.”

It is not for me to run here and there, doing amateurishly the things that for a small sum someone else can do with professional skill.

It is extraordinary how dense an intelligent man can be.”