Quotes About Character

But it is not always the people who say most who do most.

Character, mon cher, does not stand still. It can gather strength. It can also deteriorate. What a person really is, is only apparent when the test comes—that is, the moment when you stand or fall on your own feet.

Is she a very clever little actress, acting a part? Or is she a genuine semi-moronic suicidal victim?

Can one build an honest house on dishonest foundation? I do not know. But I do know that I want to try. (Edward Ferrier)

There is no such thing as a plain fact of murder. Murder springs, nine times out of ten, out of the character and circumstances of the murdered person. Because the victim was the kind of person he or she was, therefore was he or she murdered! Until we can understand fully and completely exactly what kind of a person [she] was, we shall not be able to see clearly exactly the kind of person who murdered her. From that spring the necessity of our questions.

About Miss Debenham," he said rather awkwardly. "You can take it from me that she's all right. She's a pukka sahib. "What," asked Dr. Constantine with interest, "does a pukka sahib mean?" "It means," said Poirot, "that Miss Debenham's father and brothers were at the same kind of school as Colonel Arbuthnot was." "Oh!" said Dr. Constantine, disappointed. "Then it has nothing to do with the crime at all." "Exactly," said Poirot.

I was tired of this silly joking about my 'speaking countenance'. I could keep a secret as well as anyone. Poirot had always persisted in the humiliating belief that I am a transparent character and that anyone can read what is passing in my mind.

She was a very good, kind woman. I could not have continued to live in the same house with her, but I did recognize her intrinsic worth.

What a person really is, is only apparent when the test comes—that is, the moment when you stand or fall on your own feet.

you've no idea of the agony of having your characters taken and made to say things that they never would have said, and do things that they never would have done. And if you protest, all they say is that it's 'good theatre.

With more insight into the English character, I poured out a stiff whisky and soda and placed it in front of the gloomy inspector.

You can always depend on an Englishman to play the game

The moral character of the victim has nothing to do with it! A human being who has exercised the right of private judgment and taken the life of another human being is not safe to exist amongst the community.

Height, five feet four inches, egg-shaped head carried a little to one side, eyes that shone green when he was excited, stiff military moustache, air of dignity immense!

Of course,' said Miss Marple, 'a lot of people are stupid. And stupid people get found out, whatever they do. But there are quite a number of people who aren't stupid, and one shudders to think of what they might accomplish unless they had very strongly rooted principles.

Miss Marple is a white-haired old lady with a gentle, appealing manner—Miss Wetherby is a mixture of vinegar and gush. Of the two Miss Marple is much the more dangerous.

The psychology of character is interesting,

Reflection had never been Mrs Oliver's strong point.

People are so proud of their wickedness. Odd, isn't it, that people who are good are never proud of it?

Everyone's life has a tempo. Ruth's was presto whereas Miss Marple's was content to be adagio.

Always looks as though she's seeing things other people don't see. But she's got a lot of character. She makes herself felt, as you might say.

so many people seem to me not to be either bad or good, but simply, you know, very silly." Mr.

Madame, the most kind, the most amiable are not always the cleverest.

Com maior percepção do caráter inglês, servi uma forte dose de uísque com soda e coloquei-a na frente do desditado inspetor.