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“Maigret had often tried to get other people, including men of experience, to admit that those who fall, especially those who have a morbid determination to descend ever lower, are almost always idealists.”
― Georges Simenon, Maigret and the Headless Corpse

“She must have been pretty once. At least, like everyone, she had been young. Now her eyes, her mouth, her whole body exuded weakness. Could it be that she was ill and waiting for her next attack? Some people who know that at a particular hour they are going to start suffering again have that expression, subdued and yet tense, like drug addicts waiting for the hour of their dose.”
― Georges Simenon, Maigret and the Headless Corpse

“Once past a certain age, working-class women often worship bachelors or widowers like Dieudonné Pape, admiring their well-ordered lives. When”
― Georges Simenon, Maigret and the Headless Corpse: Inspector Maigret #47

“Could you tell me, Maigret, why plainclothes policemen always go around in twos, just like plumbers?”
― Georges Simenon, Maigret and the Headless Corpse

“Maigret avait déjà tenté de faire admettre par d'autres, y compris par des hommes d'expérience, que ceux qui dégringolent, en particulier ceux qui mettent un acharnement morbide à descendre toujours plus bas et qui se salissent à plaisir, sont presque toujours des idéalistes.”
― Georges Simenon, Maigret and the Headless Corpse