[ On being married to Max Mallowan :] An archeologist is the best husband any woman can get. Just consider: The older she gets, the more he is interested in her.

“My dear Mr. Mayherne,” said Romaine, “you do not see at all. I knew—he was guilty!”

It is completely unimportant. . . . That is why it is so interesting.

[Fictional detective Hercule] Poirot was an extraordinary-looking little man. He was hardly more than five feet four inches, but carried himself with great dignity. His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it a little on one side. His moustache was very stiff and military. The neatness of his attire was almost incredible; I believe a speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound.

With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

No country can be described as free- but each has different degrees of bondage.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

Your travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.