01c. 1933 ADThe law. Lady Frances, is an uncertain animal. It has twists and turns that surprise the non-legal mind.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
03c. 1933 ADLiving alone, with no one to consult or talk to, one might easily become melodramatic, and imagine things which had no foundation on fact.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
04c. 1933 ADPlots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop…suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
05c. 1933 ADWhat I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
06c. 1933 ADThat was what murder was-as easy as that!But afterwards you went on remembering...Agatha Christie / quote ↗
07c. 1933 AD[Murder] doesn't concern the victim and the guilty only. It affects the innocent too. You and I are innocent, but the shadow of murder has touched us. We don't know how that shadow is going to affect our lives.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
08c. 1933 ADPeople more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possibly because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
09c. 1933 ADAnd anyway who the devil should I want to murder?""That would be a very good question," said Miss Marple. "I have not yet had the pleasure of sufficient conversation with you to evolve a theory as to that."Mr. Rafter's smile broadened."Conversations with you might be dangerous," he said."Conversations are always dangerous, if you have something to hide," said Miss Marple.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
10c. 1933 ADI should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim-it is the picture of a girl watching her lover dies.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
11c. 1933 ADDon’t go,” said Cedric. “Murder has made you practically one of the family.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
13c. 1933 ADPoirot said "you will find,M.le docteur,if you have much to do with cases of this kind,that they all resemble each other in one thing.""what is that?" I asked curiously"everyone concerned in them has something to hideAgatha Christie / quote ↗
14c. 1933 ADIn fact,' said Poirot, 'she stabbed him in the dark, not realising that he was dead already, but somehow deduced that he had a watch in his pyjama pocket, took it out, put back the hands blindly and gave it the requisite dent.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
15c. 1933 ADEdna restored the toffee to the centre of her tongue and sucking pleasurably, resumed her typing of Naked Love by Armand Levine. Its painstaking eroticism left her uninterested--as indeed it did most of Mr. Levine's readers, in spite of his efforts. He was a notable example of the fact that nothing can be duller than dull pornography.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
16c. 1933 ADPeople bicker so and have such rows. Even if they're fond of each other, they still seem to have rows and not to mind a bit whether they have them in public or not.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
17c. 1933 ADYou are lucky, Renisenb. You have found the happiness that is inside everybody's own heart. To most women, happiness means coming and going, busied over small affairs. It is care for one's children and laughter and conversation and quarrels with other women and alternate love and anger with a man. It is made up of small things strung together like beads on a string.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
18c. 1933 ADI believe at least in one of the chief tenets of the Christian faith--contentment with a lowly place. I am a doctor and I know that ambition--the desire to succeed--to have power--leads to most ills of the human soul. If the desire is realized it leads to arrogance, violence and final satiety; and if it is denied--ah! if it is denied--let all the asylums for the insane rise up and give their testimony! The are filled with human beings who were unable to face being mediocre, insignificant, ineffective and who therefore created for themselves ways of escape from reality so to be shut off from life itself forever.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
19c. 1933 ADIt's extraordinary, the amount of misunderstandings there are even between two people who discuss a thing quite often - both of them assuming different things and neither of them discovering the discrepancy.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
20c. 1933 ADThere are, of course, the people who revolve around themselves--but I agree with you, she's not one of that kind. She's totally uninterested in herself. And yet she's got a strong character--there must be something. I thought at first it was her art--but it isn't. I've never met anyone so detached from life. That's dangerous.''Dangerous? What do you mean?''Well, you see--it must mean an obsession of some kind, and obsessions are always dangerous.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
21c. 1933 ADYes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an important fellow creature's life is at stake. You understand me?Agatha Christie / quote ↗
22c. 1933 ADA man who has shot lions in large quantities has an unfair advantage over other men.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
23c. 1933 ADI suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has. Goes to sleep all winter and doesn't eat anything more than grass as far as I know, to live all the summer. Not an interesting life perhaps, but a very peaceful one.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
24c. 1933 ADBut who thinks of death in the middle of life?"-Mike RogersEndless Night by Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie / quote ↗
