Agatha Christie · 896 pages
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“there is nothing more amazing than the extraordinary sanity of the insane! Unless it is the extraordinary eccentricity of the sane!”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
“Wherever there is human nature, there is drama.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
“Life is only one of the Great Illusions.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
“It’s not a man’s working hours that are important – it’s his leisure hours.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
“What a newspaper prints is news – but not always truth!”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
“One must seek the truth within – not without.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
“What was this passion that attacked women for knitting under the most unpropitious conditions? A woman did not look her best knitting; the absorption, the glassy eyes, the restless, busy fingers! One needed the agility of a wild cat, and the will-power of a Napoleon to manage to knit in a crowded tube, but women managed it! If they succeeded in obtaining a seat, out came a miserable little strip of shrimp pink and click, click went the pins!”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
“There are many things not called poison which can kill a man,”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
“manner. He was very apologetic. So early”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
“Never to despise the trivial – the undignified.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
“When you look your most innocent is when you are up to something.’ Revolving”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
“They fear me, Hastings; the criminals of your England they fear me! When the cat is there, the little mice, they come no more to the cheese!” “I don’t suppose the greater part of them even know of your existence,” I said, laughing. Poirot looked at me reproachfully. He always imagines that the whole world is thinking and talking of Hercule Poirot. He had certainly made a name for himself in London, but I could hardly believe that his existence struck terror into the criminal world.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
“the more we learn, the less and less motive we find for suicide? But for murder, we begin to have a surprising collection of motives!”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
“One can’t argue with a point of view.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
“there is no such thing as Death, really, you know, only Change.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
“that every hen lays an egg of a different size! What symmetry can there be on the breakfast table? At least they should sort them in dozens at the shop!”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
“whatever that he left by the 6.15. That gets up to London about 10.30. He went straight to”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
“Not a look, not a gesture of Valerie Saintclair’s but expressed drama. She seemed to exhale an atmosphere of romance. A scarlet flannel dressing gown covered her feet—a homely garment in all conscience; but the charm of her personality invested it with an exotic flavour, and it seemed an Eastern robe of glowing colour.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
“– it is the future that causes one inquietude.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
“A statesman in these days has a difficult task. He has to pursue the policy he deems advantageous to his country, but he has at the same time to recognize the force of popular feeling. Popular feeling is very often sentimental, muddleheaded, and eminently unsound, but it cannot be disregarded for all that.” “How”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
“How well you express it! That is exactly the curse of a politician’s life. He has to bow to the country’s feeling, however dangerous and foolhardy he knows it to be.” “That”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
“Family strength is a marvellous thing.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
Agatha Christie
Born place: in Torquay, Devon, England, The United Kingdom
Born date September 15, 1890
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