Margaret Millar

“Death is a personal matter, arousing sorrow, despair, fervor, or dry-hearted philosophy. Funerals are pretty much alike.”

“It is a fact of life that when you are hurled into strange circumstances, you behave in a strange way.”

“People were always sorry...The sorrow never stopped them; it just made them feel better.”

“The guilty are always the most eager to revenge themselves.”

“For the first time in his life, he was receiving the complete and undivided attention of a beautiful woman, and he had to admit he didn't like it.”

“In an emergency, it is the weak and the meek and the humble who are the first to crumple.”

“There is no such thing as a crime of passion, only a crime of possession.”

“Like all weak men, he was a bully.”

“Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always there to be tapped, and it is the best healer of the soul.”

“All living things are killers.”

“It's always the wretches who are the most cheerful.”

“Most of us are honest all the time, and all of us are honest most of the time.”

“The only really indecent people are the chaste.”

“A courtroom is a place where the facts of life are looked at through a legal microscope.”

“We're all born with a built-in alarm system. We're all born with a conscience.”