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Quotes About Reaction

Miss Marple made a ladylike noise of vexation like a cat sneezing to indicate profound disgust.
~ Agatha Christie
once a weak person gets really frightened, they get quite savage with terror and they've no self-control at all.
~ Agatha Christie
Men and women don't react in the same way. What it comes down to is this. Men are the more sensitive sex. Women are tough. Men can't take murder in their stride. Women apparently can. The fact is, if a man's committed a murder for a woman, it probably enhances his value in her eyes. A man feels differently.
~ Agatha Christie
Miss Marple made the kind of noise that would once have been written down as 'tut-tut'.
~ Agatha Christie
You speak of my manner to you being insulting. Well, once or twice, your manner has annoyed me " "I am enchanted to hear it," said Poirot.
~ Agatha Christie
You know, Maureen, I seem to have seen that name somewhere." "Home Perm, perhaps. He looks like a hairdresser." Poirot winced.
~ Agatha Christie
I don't know what the usual reactions are of a man who goes to propose marriage. In fiction his throat is dry and his collar feels too tight and he is in a pitiable state of nervousness.
~ Agatha Christie
When a man's neck's in danger, he doesn't stop to think too much about sentiment.
~ Agatha Christie
She began laughing wildly again. Dr. Armstrong strode forward. He raised his hand and struck her a flat blow on the cheek. She gasped, hiccupped—and swallowed. She stood motionless a minute, then she said: "Thank you … I'm all right now.
~ Agatha Christie
He listened for a minute or two and then I saw his face change. His own side of the conversation was short and disjointed.
~ Agatha Christie
If you will forgive me for being personal—I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.
~ Agatha Christie
Her sulky mouth twisted into a smile.
~ Agatha Christie
Pink with embarrassment, she pushed the bell.
~ Agatha Christie
I thought the Chief Constable was going to have apoplexy.
~ Agatha Christie
Fire in her eyes, ice in her voice. I did not wonder that the blood rose to John's face in a crimson tide.
~ Agatha Christie
A co jest nie tak z moj? propozycj?? (...) - Prosz? wybaczy? t? osobist? uwag?: nie podoba mi si? pa?ska twarz (...)
~ Agatha Christie
He tailed off into furious profanity.
~ Agatha Christie
Young women do not faint nowadays, monsieur, without considerable provocation.
~ Agatha Christie
COVID-19 is the reaction of nature to our abusive & willful misconduct.
~ Ahmad F. Hedayat
I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that.
~ Aimee Mann
I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.
~ Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
When she saw the severed head she fainted dead away. What can I say, she's a woman." "I don't know what it has to do with being a woman," Daiyu responded in a serious tone of voice. "I think anyone might faint at such a ghoulish sight. I mean, if this weren't our job, a few of us might be under a doctor's care right about now." The investigator looked properly chastened,
~ Akimitsu Takagi
And the monkey flips the switch.
~ Akiva Goldsman
Whining is anger through a small opening.
~ Al Franken