Quotes About Society

Why the worst women should always attract the best men is something hard to fathom!

Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.

What are you doing this afternoon, Griselda?" "My duty," said Griselda. "My duty as the Vicaress. Tea and scandal at four thirty.

Young men are sadly degenerate nowadays.

There is, as Miss Marple would say, a lot of human nature in all of us.

Every one made such a fuss over things nowadays! They wanted injections before they had teeth pulled -they took drugs if they couldn't sleep-they wanted easy chairs and cushions and the girls allowed their figures to slop about anyhow and lay about half naked on the beaches in summer.

After all, perhaps dirt isn't really so unhealthy as one is brought up to believe.

There seems to be a general idea that a clergyman is incapable of behaving like a gentleman. That is not true.

To marry and have children, that is the common lot of women. Only one woman in a hundred--more, in a thousand, can make for herself a name and position as you have done.

About Miss Debenham," he said rather awkwardly. "You can take it from me that she's all right. She's a pukka sahib. "What," asked Dr. Constantine with interest, "does a pukka sahib mean?" "It means," said Poirot, "that Miss Debenham's father and brothers were at the same kind of school as Colonel Arbuthnot was." "Oh!" said Dr. Constantine, disappointed. "Then it has nothing to do with the crime at all." "Exactly," said Poirot.

I've no patience with modern humanitarian scruples about capital punishment.

The illusion that freedom is the prerogative of one's own particular race is fairly widespread.

Human nature, dear, is very much the same everywhere. It is more difficult to observe it closely in a city, that is all.

In my opinion, the state of mind of a community is always directly due to the influence of the man at the top.

Women are like that nowadays, never happy unless they're dancing or gambling.

In my day if a man was mad he was mad and we didn't look about for scientific terms to soften it down.

The trouble is that practically everything one does nowadays is illegal," said Giles gloomily. "That's why one has a permanent feeling of guilt.

Ma come sapete, la natura umana è quella che è..

The Beddingfeld girl was deep in conversation with the missionary parson, Chichester. Women always flutter round parsons.

It wasn't what you were born to, and no good comes from getting out of your station in life.

The moral character of the victim has nothing to do with it! A human being who has exercised the right of private judgment and taken the life of another human being is not safe to exist amongst the community.

He chews the gum which I believe is not done in good circles.

So, if I lost all my money, you'd drop me tomorrow?' 'Yes, darling, I would. You can't say I'm not honest about it! I only like successful people. And you'll find that's true of nearly everybody - only most people won't admit it. They just say that really they "can't put up with Mary or Emily or Pamela any more! Her troubles have made her so bitter and peculiar, poor dear!

If she'd been born in an African tribe she might have been a witch doctor.