Quotes from Agatha Christie

When people barely notice you're alive, you're not likely to have any enemies.

Disciplina sem arregimentação.

I saw," said Poirot. "With the eyes of the mind one can see more than with the eyes of the body. One leans back and closes the eyes—

Nothing, I believe is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a a stagnant pool.

Mas nós não somos selvagens! Somos civilizados hoje em dia. - Há diferentes tipos de civilizações... - disse Bob vagamente. - Além disso, eu prefiro pensar que todos temos algo de selvageria dentro de nós... Se conseguirmos pensar em uma boa desculpa para deixá-la escapar.

Don't you think you're being rather morbid?' I asked. 'Yes,' said Megan. 'That's what people always say when you're saying the truth.

Recuerde que en esta vida las cosas no son tan bonitas como parecen a primera vista.

and after all I am constantly in the habit of being right"—Race smiled into his moustache at this typical utterance

There aren't many abbreviations of Frederica," I said. "It's not like Margaret where you can have half a dozen—Maggie, Margot, Madge, Peggie—

He has a clear-cut, black and white mind, with an exact knowledge of his own feeling—and a complete disregard for outside pressure.

That's what she always wanted to be—at the centre of things.

You bet it does. Do you like detective stories? I do. I read them all, and I've got autographs from Dorothy Sayers and Agatha Christie and Dickson Carr and H. C. Bailey. Will the murder be in the papers?

I rather think we've all got a bit of savage in us — if we can think up a good excuse for letting it rip.

Os tolos compram coisas que morrem nas primeiras geadas e aí desejam ter ficado com os girassóis e os bem-me-queres!

Bueno, debe ser que el amor no logra adueñarse de nosotros hasta que tenemos cierta edad.

not for any consideration! You can be quite sure of that.

They exchanged a quick smile - a brief recognition of the fact that each was glad of the other's presence

Not that Miss Bulstrode would have allowed herself to be commanded if she had not wished to do so.

There is nothing so inhuman as the mask of the good servant.

Las mujeres no acostumbran a ser crueles con los hombres, a menos de que se trate de uno en particular; solo lo somos con las mujeres.

You never really get caught up in things, do you, Ann?" "No," said Ann thoughtfully, "I don't think I do. I think I'm one of those people who is a born observer. More like a commentator on the radio.

She returned that intent gaze quietly and without any nervousness. He said at last:

Soldier Island, eh? There's a fly in the ointment.

Todos nos vemos en el espejo de distintos ángulos, pero estamos todos ante él, y por lo tanto vemos también lo mismo.