Quotes About Engagement

I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.

the truth is never horrible, only interesting.

One gets infected, it is true, by the style of a work that one has been reading.

It is a profound belief of mine that if you can induce a person to talk to you for long enough, on any subject whatever! sooner or later they will give themselves away.

Use your eyes. Use your ears. Use your brains---if you've got any. And, if necessary--act.

To be part of something one doesn't in the least understand is, I think, one of the most intriguing things about life.

If one man does not make a move, the other must, and by permitting the adversary to make the attack one learns something about him.

We will sit here and drink coffee, and you shall all three listen to Hercule Poirot while he gives you a lecture on crime.

A dog is a great promoter of friendly intercourse.

That's how they do it, these girls! Othello charmed Desdemona by telling her stories, but, oh, didn't Desdemona charm Othello by the way she listened?

If you disperse energy in speech, it doesn't leave you too much over for action.

Monsieur, pray confine yourself to the point.

You won't tell anyone, will you?' began Emily, knowing well that of all openings on earth this one is the most certain to provoke interest and sympathy.

Now we can talk," said Poirot. "When I say that, I mean, really, that I shall talk.

these twitterers can tell one a lot if one just lets them—twitter!

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.

He never left the cinema very quickly. It always took him a moment or two to return to the prosaic reality of everyday life.

Everyone's doing research now days, said Tuppence. You know. All the teenagers and all ones nephews or cousins or other people's sons and daughters. They're all doing research. I don't know what actually they do research into nowadays but they never seem to do it whatever it is afterwards. They just have the research and a good time doing research and they're very pleased with themselves and well I don't quite know what does come next.

I had little to do save nod my head and look intelligent—and that last is perhaps over optimistic.

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.

He said at last, when Miss Gilchrist had twittered into silence:

Miss Lyall, whose principal interests in life were the observation of people round her and the sound of her own voice, continued to talk.

That's what she always wanted to be—at the centre of things.

Her nephew had once compared life in St. Mary Mead to scum on a pond, and she had indignantly pointed out that smeared on a slide under the microscope there would be plenty of life to be observed. Yes, indeed, in St. Mary Mead, there was always something going on.