Quotes About Enigma

I said, life will not pass her by. Strange and exciting events will surround her. You've only got to look at her to know it.

I congratulate you on having such a unique and beautiful problem.

A little difficult to know where you were with Elinor. She didn't reveal much of what she thought and felt about things. He liked that about her. He hated people who reeled off their thoughts and feelings to you, who took it for granted that you wanted to know all their mechanism. Reserve was always more interesting.

They are never really dead, these super criminals

The things she said seemed to have very little relation to the last thing she had said a minute before. She was the sort of person, Tommy thought, who might know a great deal more than she chose to reveal.

I neither see nor comprehend. You make all these confounded mysteries, and it's useless asking you to explain. You always like keeping something up your sleeve to the last minute.

Just exactly what's up on this train? It seems bughouse to me.

Your conclusions are, I think, justified," he said. "Ulick Norman Owen! In Miss Brent's letter, though the signature of the surname is a mere scrawl the Christian names are reasonably clear-Una Nancy -in either case, you notice, the same initials. Ulick Norman OwenUna Nancy Owen-each time, that is to say, U. N. Owen. Or by a slight stretch of fancy, UNKNOWN!

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

And for five long hours the little man sat motionless, blinking his eyelids like a cat, his green eyes flickering and becoming steadily greener and greener.

It's well-nigh impossible, sir. But this particular escape was extraordinarily well planned and carried out. We haven't nearly got to the bottom of it yet.

This affair advances in a very strange manner.

It is puzzling, I admit, but perhaps we shall find some explanation later. We come now to the evening, and the visit of the mysterious lady. I confess that that fairly baffles me,

Really, Poirot! In the Middle Ages you would certainly have been burnt at the stake. How can you possibly know the things you do!

My dear Aunt," said Raymond West with some amusement, "I didn't mean that sort of village incident. I was thinking of murders and disappearances—the kind of thing that Sir Henry could tell us about by the hour if he liked.

Where was Moses when the light went out? The answer, of course, was "In the Dark.

Her heart certainly failed to beat - but what caused it to fail is the question.

followed his instructions, taking up my position by the baize door, and wondering what on earth lay behind the request.

You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.

like the scorpion's question mark drawn in the pollen on the canvas of the sky and of our brains at midnight

How was he standing on top of the water, but still moving?

What would I tell people? That I work in the Defense against the Dark Arts Division?" "I have another name in mind: Special Cases Unit.

No, that's because there are more interesting things to do." Her grandmother looked at her sharply. "Like cutting into dead bodies" Carmeryn swallowed back her irration. "Yeah-the live one kick too much.

I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.