Quotes About Challenge

It's the muddle-headed loyalty of friends and relations that makes a detective's life so difficult.

Very difficult, mon ami. But as you know well, difficulties rejoice the heart of Hercule Poirot.

Man må våge viss man vil noen steder, sa fru Bantry.

As a rich property owner says 'Bolsheviks' - as an earnest Communist says 'Capitalists! ' - as a good housewife says 'Blackbeetles' - so did Miss Williams say 'Men!' From her spinster's, governess's life, there rose up a blast of fierce feminism. Nobody hearing her speak could doubt that to Miss Williams Men were the Enemy!

When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope.

It's been going on a long time. I can tell you it's a difficult thing to go on really liking a man who can do everything just a little bit better than you can. Burnaby was a narrow-minded, small-natured man. He let it get on his nerves.

This river... it's a crossing over Rubicon.

Put that in your moustache and smoke it.

Dangerous? Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?

Ach! That." Race

It would have to be a very interesting problem to tempt me from my chair. See you, I have affairs of importance of my own to attend to.

Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

I can always think of things," said Mrs. Oliver happily. "What is so tiring is writing them down. I always think I've finished, and then when I count up I find I've only written thirty thousand words instead of sixty thousand, and so then I have to throw in another murder and get the heroine kidnapped again. It's all very boring.

You and I, Hastings, are going hunting once again.

That child, said Sophia, is a bit of a problem.

There is always, of course, that terrible three weeks, or a month, which you have to get through when you are trying to get started on a book. There is no agony like it. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off . . . .

But I tell you this—if you try and saddle Fleetwood with this business you'll have me to deal with." "And who exactly are you?" asked Poirot sweetly. Mr. Ferguson got rather red.

Il peggio è spesso la verità.

if you're born on the wrong side of the wall, I can't see that it's wrong to climb over it.

It is hard when you are twenty-four years of age, and your one ambition in life is to reduce your handicap at golf, to be forced to give time and attention to the problem of earning your living.

Burnt corks they use mostly—though 'tis messy getting it off again. Miss Cynthia was a Negress once, and, oh, the trouble she had.

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.

I am become a hard, thankless, graceless girl, and it was the only way I could do it.

Hélas, la vie calme et tranquille que je m'étais imaginée s'est très vite transformée en enfer.