Quotes from Agatha Christie

Fire in her eyes, ice in her voice. I did not wonder that the blood rose to John's face in a crimson tide.

We walked together slowly, for the sun was hot.

No greater mistake than to think that because a man's tied by the leg it affects his brain pan. Not a bit of it.

that. Be sure thy sin will find thee out.' Vera scrambled to her feet. She said: 'But, Miss Brent—Miss Brent—in that case—' 'Yes, my dear?

One wonders where these things come *from* -- I mean the ones that are a must. Sometimes I think that is the moment one feels nearest to God, because you have been allowed to feel a little of the joy of pure creation. You have been able to make something that is not yourself. You know a kinship with the Almighty, as you might on a seventh day, when you see that what you have made is good.

doctor's tone caught Poirot's attention

Undoubtedly the fat had certain compensations in life . . . a zest—a gusto—denied to those of more fashionable contours.

Her qualities were all excellent qualities, but sometimes Edward wished that she had more faults and less virtues. It was her virtues that drove him to desperate deeds.

I showed him both letters when the second one came. He was inclined to think the whole thing a hoax.

I admired Elsa Greer because she had guts, because she could fight, because she stood up to her tormentors and never quailed! But I admired Caroline Crale because she didn't fight, because she retreated into her world of half lights and shadows. She was never defeated because she never gave battle.

What you've been saying. It's just words. It doesn't mean anything.

Pottery - the whole romance of humanity can be expressed in terms of poetry.

Great mistake to say too much. Remember that. Never tell all you know — not even to the person you know best.

The weapon lay on the floor - a bronze figure about two feet high, the base of it stained and wet. Mr. Satterthwaite bent over it curiously. "A Venus," he said softly. "So he was struck down by Venus." He found food for poetic meditation in the thought.

ah, sim; temo que nosso amigo de devonshire não tenha usado suas pequenas células cinzentas. mediu as pegadas, mas deixou de refletir e organizar as ideias com a ordem e o método necessários.

He notices a good deal. Those quiet people often do.

And yet it lends itself to romance, my friend. All around us are people, of all classes, of all nationalities, of all ages. For three days these people, these strangers to one another, are brought together. They sleep and eat under one roof, they cannot get away from each other. At the end of three days they part, they go their several ways, never, perhaps, to see each other again.

Lawrence lived in the midst of an artistic disarray that would have driven me quite mad.

They came out of the temple into the sunshine with the sand yellow and warm about their feet.

That's the worst of our job," said Race despondently. "So many people keep back the truth for positively futile reasons.

I'm afraid it hasn't occurred to me to have scruples" said Katherine

Sopló el viento, llovió a cántaros y la niebla lo envolvió todo. Y bien, ¿qué pasa ahora? La niebla se ha dispersado, el cielo esta claro y allá arriba brillan las estrellas. Es como la vida misma, madame.

But you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.

She existed, one might say, only in him and for him." Miss Williams paused a minute and then said quietly: "That, I think, is the justification for what she eventually did.