“The truth is people are an extraordinary mixture of heroism and cowardice.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from 4:50 from Paddington
“Don’t go,” said Cedric. “Murder has made you practically one of the family.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from 4:50 from Paddington
“True to the precepts handed down to her by her mother and grandmother—to wit: that a true lady can neither be shocked nor surprised—Miss Marple merely raised her eyebrows and shook her head,”
― Agatha Christie, quote from 4:50 from Paddington
“She could not fail to observe that a life of academic distinction was singularly ill rewarded. She had no desire whatever to teach and she took pleasure in contacts with minds much less brilliant than her own. In short, she had a taste for people, all sorts of people—and not the same people the whole time.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from 4:50 from Paddington
“All this red tape and form-filling. That’s what comes of a bureaucratic state. Can’t go where you like and do as you please anymore! Somebody’s always asking questions.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from 4:50 from Paddington
“Lo malo es que las personas son insaciables. Algunas personas. Muchas veces, así es como empieza todo. No se empieza con el asesinato, con el deseo de cometerlo, ni siquiera pensándolo. Se empieza siendo, sencillamente, avaricioso, queriendo tener más de lo que se ha de recibir.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from 4:50 from Paddington
“The face towels had been excellent value and just what Margaret wanted, the space gun for Robby and the rabbit for Jean were highly satisfactory, and that evening coatee was just the thing she herself needed, warm but dressy. The pullover for Hector, too…her mind dwelt with approval on the soundness of her purchases.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from 4:50 from Paddington
“I never feel lonely if I've got a book...”
― Agatha Christie, quote from 4:50 from Paddington
“Lo malo es que las personas son insaciables. Algunas personas. Muchas veces, así es como empieza todo. No se empieza con el asesinato, con el deseo de cometerlo, ni siquiera pensándolo. Se empieza siendo, sencillamente, avaricioso, queriendo teniendo más de lo que se ha de recibir.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from 4:50 from Paddington
Agatha Christie
Born place: in Torquay, Devon, England, The United Kingdom
Born date September 15, 1890
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“Have you ever noticed' I said 'how everyone says they want to be different, but as soon as they meet someone who really is different, they ostracize them?”
― Charles de Lint, quote from The Blue Girl
“if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, quote from The Arm of the Starfish
“Now don't go getting excited that I'll suddenly notice Hutch in the soft pink light of the sunset and fall in love. He's not the love of my life, and no, we haven't been destined to get together ever since those gummy bears back in fourth grade, just because that's what happens in moves. And don't go thinking he and I become best friends in a Breakfast Club sort of way, either, with me realizing he's got a heart of gold under the Iron Maiden motorcycle jacket, and him realizing that I'm not the slut everyone thinks I am. Yes, that happens onscreen. But forget it. This is real life. He creeps me out. We have nothing in common besides leprosy.”
― E. Lockhart, quote from The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver
“I recognised the air—it was a wild Hungarian dance popular in the theatres, and I reflected for a moment that this was the first time I had ever heard Zann play the work of another composer.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, quote from H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction
“and for the first time began to understand the desperate game that we play in life; and how a thing once done is not to be changed or remedied, by any penitence. But”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from The Black Arrow
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