01c. 1933 ADAnd families now, families who have been separated throughout the year, assemble once more together. Now under these conditions, my friend, you must admit that there will occur a great amount of strain. People who do not feel amiable are putting great pressure on themselves to appear amiable! There is at Christmas time a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c'est entendu, but nevertheless hypocrisy.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
02c. 1933 ADThere is at Christmas time a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c'est entendu, but nevertheless hypocrisy!Agatha Christie / quote ↗
03c. 1933 ADA great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselvesAgatha Christie / quote ↗
04c. 1933 ADYou say your life is your own. But can you dare to ignore the chance that you are taking part in a gigantic drama under the orders of a divine Producer? Your cue may not come till the end of the play--it may be totally unimportant, a mere walking-on part, but upon it may hang the issues of the play if you do not give the cue to another player. The whole edifice may crumple. You as you, may not matter to anyone in the world, but you as a person in a particular place may matter unimaginably.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
05c. 1933 ADWhy shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
06c. 1933 ADLove can be a very frightening thing.”“That is why most great love stories are tragedies.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
07c. 1933 ADI loved her- I always loved her- no matter what she was-I wanted her safe- not shut up- a prisoner for life, eating her heart out. And we did keep her safe- for many years" Phillip StarkAgatha Christie / quote ↗
10c. 1933 ADAll life is a jest, Imhotep - and it is death who laughs last. Do you not hear it at every feast? Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you die.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
11c. 1933 ADI suppose what I really am is restless. I want to go everywhere, see everything, do everything. I want to find something. Yes, that's it, I want to find something.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
12c. 1933 ADEverything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
15c. 1933 ADI'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
16c. 1933 ADIntuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
17c. 1933 ADIn a well-balanced, reasoning mind there is no such thing as an intuition - an inspired guess! You can guess, of course - and a guess is either right or wrong. If it is right you can call it an intuition. If it is wrong you usually do not speak of it again. But what is often called an intuition is really impression based on logical deduction or experience. When an expert feels that there is something wrong about a picture or a piece of furniture or the signature on a cheque he is really basing that feeling on a host of a small signs and details. He has no need to go into them minutely - his experience obviates that - the net result is the definite impression that something is wrong. But it is not a guess, it is an impression based on experience.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
18c. 1933 ADHow true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
19c. 1933 ADJealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
20c. 1933 ADYou are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its face value. You are not just one of the women of the household. You are Renisenb who wants to think for herself, who wonders about other people.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
21c. 1933 ADWhether he acted rightly or not, I have never been sure. It was the future of a child that was at stake. A child, he felt, ought to be given the benefit of a doubt.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
22c. 1933 AD...It was borne in upon her audience that the outside of Jane's charming head was distinctly superior to the inside.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
24c. 1933 ADEh bien, then, you are crazy, or appear crazy or you think you are crazy, and possibly you may be crazy.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
