“Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Death in the Clouds
“Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Death in the Clouds
“Life can be very terrible," he said. "One needs much courage."
"To kill oneself? yes, I suppose one does."
"Also to live," said Poirot, "one needs courage.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Death in the Clouds
“Las mujeres, claro está, deben pensar en ellas mismas.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Death in the Clouds
“Mon ami,' said Poirot with dignity, 'when I commit a murder it will not be with the arrow poison of the South American Indians.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Death in the Clouds
“¡El dinero es ridículo! ¡El crédito es ridículo! ¡Convenga usted en que la vida tiene mucho de ridículo!”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Death in the Clouds
“Si se estudia un problema con orden y método, no hay dificultad alguna en resolverlo (Hércules Poirot)”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Death in the Clouds
“A meal should always lie lightly on the estomac," said Poirot. "It should not be so heavy as to paralyze thought.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Death in the Clouds
“There comes to everyone a turning point in their lives, M. Poirot. They stand at the crossroads and have to decide. My profession interests me enormously; it is a sorrow - a very great sorrow - to abandon it. But there are other claims. There is, M. Poirot, the happiness of a human being.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Death in the Clouds
“You are young still. Naturally, one tries this, that and the other, but what one eventually settles down into is the life one prefers.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Death in the Clouds
“Looks a bit fishy to me," said Japp. "He actually had a blowpipe, and look at his manner. All to pieces."
"That is the severity of your official demeanor, my good Japp."
"There's nothing for anyone to be afraid of if they're only telling the truth," said the Scotland Yard man austerely.
Poirot looked at him pityingly. "In verity, I believe that you yourself honestly believe that.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Death in the Clouds
“It is romantic, you know, the transatlantic telephone. To speak so easily to someone nearly halfway across the globe. The telegraphed photograph - that, too, is romantic. Science is the greatest romance there is.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Death in the Clouds
“When the mal de mer seizes me I, Hercule Poirot, am a creature with no gray cells, no order, no method — a mere member of the human race somewhat below average intelligence! It is deplorable, but there it is! And talking of these matters, how is my excellent friend Giraud?”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Death in the Clouds
Agatha Christie
Born place: in Torquay, Devon, England, The United Kingdom
Born date September 15, 1890
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“Are you boiling bacon? “Um. Is that wrong?” I say. “Argh! I want to punch you!” Leo says.”
― Roan Parrish, quote from In the Middle of Somewhere
“Maybe thinking any one person can show up and give you all you need is as much of a delusion as thinking you can find truth in a bottle. Maybe you can just find what you need in little pieces, in people who show up for one crucial moment--or a whole chain of them--even if they can't solve it all. Maybe this is the secret of big families, like the Garretts...and like AA. People's strengths can take their turn. There can be more of us than there is trouble.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, quote from The Boy Most Likely To
“on the last day of love my heart cracked inside my body”
― Rupi Kaur, quote from The Sun and Her Flowers
“Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came.”
― Raymond Carver, quote from Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
“It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had spent twenty years of his human existence learning to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin.”
― Peter Matthiessen, quote from The Snow Leopard
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