“One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.”
Agatha Christie And Then There Were None
Źródło: And Then There Were None
“One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.”
Agatha Christie And Then There Were None
Źródło: And Then There Were None
“The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.”
Agatha Christie książka Sad Cypress
Źródło: Sad Cypress
“One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.”
Agatha Christie książka A Murder Is Announced
Źródło: A Murder Is Announced
“Conversations are always dangerous, if you have something to hide.”
Agatha Christie książka A Caribbean Mystery
Źródło: A Caribbean Mystery
“Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot”
Agatha Christie książka Śmierć w chmurach
Źródło: Death in the Clouds
“It really is very dangerous to believe people. I never have for years.”
Agatha Christie książka Sleeping Murder
Sleeping Murder (1976)
“The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.”
Agatha Christie książka The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
Agatha Christie książka Death on the Nile
Death on the Nile (1937)
Agatha Christie książka The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
Agatha Christie książka Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
“Children and one’s social inferiors never know when to say good-bye. One has to say it for them.”
Agatha Christie książka The Burden
The Burden (1956)
“It is the misfortune of small, precise men always to hanker after large and flamboyant women.”
Agatha Christie książka Dwanaście prac Herkulesa
The Labours of Hercules (1967)
“One has occasionally to pocket one’s pride and readjust one’s ideas.”
Agatha Christie książka Śmierć w chmurach
Death in the Clouds (1935)
“Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking."
"An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.”
Agatha Christie książka Peril at End House
Źródło: Peril at End House
Christie denied having made this remark, which had been attributed to her by her second husband Sir Max Mallowan in a news report (9 March 1954); according to Nigel Dennis, "Genteel Queen of Crime: Agatha Christie Puts Her Zest for Life Into Murder", Life, Volume 40, N° 20, 14 May 1956 http://books.google.com/books?id=p0wEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA102, she was quoting "a witty wife"; Quote Investigator reports on "An Archaeologist Is the Best Husband a Woman Can Have" as of uncertain origin. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/12/husband/ <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Wariant: An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
“Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.”
Agatha Christie książka The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Źródło: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“In a state of emergency martial law is proclaimed.”
Curtain - Poirot's Last Case (1975)
Kontekst: I have no more now to say. I do not know, Hastings, if what I have done is justified or not justified. No — I do not know. I do not believe that a man should take the law into his own hands... But on the other hand, I am the law! As a young man in the Belgian police force I shot down a desperate criminal who sat on a roof and fired at people below. In a state of emergency martial law is proclaimed.