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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“As I told you, I’m not the settlement midwife. I’ve not birthed one baby.” “But you are an herbalist.” “I suppose I am. The woods and Ma Horn have been my teachers since I was a girl.” She looked away from him, embarrassed. Here she was, considering him a quack, and he was unraveling her own lack of expertise fast as a spool of thread. “I’m finding the settlers here a superstitious lot. I dinna doubt you are much the same.” She sat up straighter. “What do you mean?” “Axes under the bed tae cut the pain of childbirth. Garlic charms and spells. Boiling beaver tails tae cure snakebite. No’ tae mention the misuse of useful herbs.” Her own face clouded. “I do none of those things.” He looked doubtful. “Prove it.” “How do you expect me to do that?” His steely eyes held a challenge. “Work alongside me.”
― Laura Frantz, quote from The Frontiersman's Daughter
“tries, and tries very hard, but she doesn’t know what it’s like to be the sole survivor, the only one left of one’s contemporaries. They’ve all gone now. They’re all dead and buried. My dearest friends, my loved ones. Even my enemies are no longer around to get my goat and spark the will in me to fight.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, quote from Hold the Dream
“Peter, who broke his enemies on the rack and hanged them in Red Square, who had his son tortured to death, is Peter the Great. But Nicholas, whose hand was lighter than that of any tsar before him, is "Bloody Nicholas". In human terms, this is irony rich and dramatic, the more so because Nicholas knew what he was called.”
― Robert K. Massie, quote from Nicholas and Alexandra
“At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous.”
― Anaïs Nin, quote from A Spy in the House of Love
“Am întors spatele filozofiei cînd mi-am dat seama că e cu neputinţă să descopăr la Kant vreo slăbiciune omenească, vreo urmă adevărată de tristeţe; la Kant şi la toţi filozofii. In raport cu muzica, cu mistica şi poezia, activitatea filozofică e hrănită de o sevă sub¬ţiată şi de o profunzime suspectă, care nu-i ademe¬neşte decît pe oamenii timizi sau căldicei. De altfel, filozofia — nelinişte impersonală, refugiu în preajma unor idei anemice — e soluţia tuturor celor care fug de exuberanţa corupătoare a vieţii. Aproape toţi filo¬zofii au sfîrşit bine: iată supremul argument îm¬potriva filozofiei. Sfîrşitul lui Socrate însuşi nu are în el nimic tragic: e o neînţelegere, sfîrşitul unui pedagog — iar Nietzsche s-a prăbuşit doar ca poet şi vizionar: el şi-a ispăşit extazele, nu raţionamentele.”
― Emil M. Cioran, quote from A Short History of Decay
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