Quotes from Agatha Christie

To-tre dager senere mottok frøken Marple et brev med ettermiddagsposten. Hun tok det opp, og som vanlig snudde hun det, kikket på poststempelet og håndskriften, kom til at det ikke var en regning og åpnet konvolutten.

But who thinks of death in the middle of life?" -Mike Rogers Endless Night by Agatha Christie

Un pò difficile capire come stavano le cose quando c'era di mezzo Elinor. In realtà non rivelava mai molto di ciò che pensava o sentiva. E questo gli piaceva in lei. Perché detestava le persone che vuotavano il sacco, e rivelavano subito le proprie opinioni o manifestavano i propri sentimenti...le persone che davano praticamente per scontato che l'interlocutore desiderasse sapere com'era articolato il loro meccanismo interiore. Il riserbo era sempre stato più interessante.

How can you and I set about preventing a murder? You're about a hundred and I'm a broken-up old crock.

You see," he said sadly, "you have no instincts." "It was intelligence you were requiring just now," I pointed out. "The two often go together," said Poirot enigmatically.

No, no, my dear boy, that's where you're wrong. It's very easy to kill—so long as no one suspects you. And you see, the person in question is just the last person anyone would suspect!

Yes. Of course, you're very young… you haven't got to that yet. But it does come! The blessed relief when you know that you've done with it all—that you haven't got to carry the burden any longer. You'll feel that too, someday…

we all have an exaggerated idea of our own personalities and don't recognize the truth if it's sufficiently brutally portrayed...

Now, as I expect you know, there is nothing more cruel than talk, and there is nothing more difficult to combat. When people say things behind your back there is nothing you can refute or deny, and the rumours go on growing and growing, and no one can stop them.

Such a landscape was best enjoyed from a car on a fine afternoon. You exclaimed, "Quel beau paysage!" and drove back to a good hotel.

I will only ask you to believe one thing. I have faith in myself. I believe that I am the man to guide England through the days of crisis that I see coming. If I did not honestly believe that I am needed by my country to steer the ship of state, I would not have done what I have done--made the best of both worlds--saved myself from disaster by a clever trick.' 'My lord, if you could not make the best of both worlds, you could not be a politician.

Is nobody incapable of murder?" "I have often wondered." said Hercule Poirot.

Your criminal is someone who wants to be important, but who never will be important, because he'll always be less than a man.

You don't stop being in love with anyone because you get old. People like Derek and Deborah think you do. They can't imagine anyone who isn't young being in love.

Nowadays, no one believes in evil. It is considered, at most, a mere negation of good. Evil, people say, is done by those who know no better—who are undeveloped—who are to be pitied rather than blamed.

I should hardly advise you to go too much by all I've told you. I'm a malicious creature.

Idealan muž je arheolog jer što je žena starija to ga više zanima.

That is the worst of Poirot. Order and Method are his gods. He goes so far as to attribute all his success to them.

It's a classic, isn't it, sir?" said Hay. "Third Programme stuff. I don't listen to the Third Programme.

You tell your lies and you think nobody knows. But there are two people who know. Yes - two people. One is le bon Dieu -" He raised a hand to heaven, and then settling himself back in his chair and shutting his eyelids, he murmured comfortably: "And the other is Hercule Poirot.

Will you be so kind, Mademoiselle, as to write down your permanent address on this piece of paper?' She complied. Her writing was clear and legible.

Truth," she said, "is seldom romantic.

Decidedly it was the policy of an imbecile.

but it is one of the great consolations in nature that a man, however unattractive, will find that he is attractive—to some woman.