Elephants Can Remember

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

Human curiosity. Such a very interesting thing. Think of what we owe to it throughout history. It is said to be usually associated with the cat. Curiosity killed the cat. But I should say really that the Greeks were the inventors of curiosity.

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read. Wonderful luck that was, Mrs. Oliver thought to herself.

There is a proverb my grandmother used to repeat: Old sins have long shadows.

As one journeys through life," said Poirot, "one finds more and more that people are often interested in things that are none of their own business. Even more so than they are in things that could be considered as their own business.