Quotes from Nemesis

“I really cannot understand the point of what you're saying. Really,' said Clotilde, looking at her. 'What a very extraordinary person you are. What sort of a woman are you? Why are you talking like this? Who are you?'

Miss Marple pulled down the mass of pink wool that encircled her head, a pink wool scarf of the same kind that she had once worn in the West Indies.

'One of my names,' she said, 'is Nemesis.'

'Nemesis? And what does that mean?'

'I think you know,' said Miss Marple. 'You are a very well educated woman. Nemesis is long delayed sometimes, but it comes in the end.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Nemesis

“Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Nemesis

“I know when a couple are really in love with each other. And by that I do not mean just sexually attracted. There is too much talk about sex, too much attention is paid to it. I do not mean that anything about sex is wrong. That is nonsense. But sex cannot take the place of love, it goes with love, but cannot succeed by itself.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Nemesis

“Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Nemesis

“Accuracy is more a male quality than a female one. - Jane Marple”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Nemesis

“I know he'll probably always be like it, but I love him. I may be able to help him and I may not. But I'll take that risk.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Nemesis

“Who was there to guard youth from pain and death - youth who could not, who had never been able to, guard itself? Did they know too little? Or was it that they knew too much, and therefore thought they knew it all?”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Nemesis

“There is too much talk about sex, too much attention is paid to it. I do not mean that anything about sex is wrong. That is nonsense. But sex cannot take the place of love, it goes with love but it cannot succeed by itself. To love means the words of the marriage service. For better, for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health. That is what you take on if you love and wish to marry.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Nemesis

“you prefer to continue knitting, that is your decision. If you prefer to serve the cause of justice, I hope that you may at least find it interesting. Let justice roll down like waters. And righteousness like an everlasting stream. Amos.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Nemesis

“They wish not to become adult—not to have to accept our kind of responsibility. And yet like all children, they want to be thought grown up, and free to do what they think are grown up things. And that leads sometimes to tragedy and sometimes to the aftermath of tragedy.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Nemesis

“So many things are difficult,” said Miss Marple. It was a useful phrase which she used often.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Nemesis

“To-tre dager senere mottok frøken Marple et brev med ettermiddagsposten. Hun tok det opp, og som vanlig snudde hun det, kikket på poststempelet og håndskriften, kom til at det ikke var en regning og åpnet konvolutten.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Nemesis

“I have made it a habit,” said Miss Marple. “To be careful?” “I should not put it exactly like that, but I have made a point of being always ready to disbelieve as well as believe anything that is told to me.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Nemesis

“Ah, I see you are an actress, Miss Marple, as well as an avenger.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Nemesis

“It has just happened that I have found myself in the vicinity of murder rather more often than would seem normal.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Nemesis

“I hoped for the best,' said Miss Marple. 'One cannot go through life without attracting certain risks if they are necessary.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Nemesis

“Oh well," said Miss Marple, "it's just perseverance, isn't it, that leads to things.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Nemesis

“Hay muchas viejas cotillas y todas son muy parecidas. Por supuesto, no me distingo de ninguna de las otras. Una vieja cotilla como tantas otras, y eso, desde luego, es un excelente disfraz. Me pregunto si voy por el camino correcto. Algunas veces sé cómo son las personas. Me refiero a que sé cómo son las personas, porque me recuerdan a otras que he conocido, así que deduzco algunos de sus defectos y algunas de sus virtudes. Sé de qué pie cojean las personas, Eso no se me discute.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Nemesis

“One does not like to make definite assertions unless one has a little more definite knowledge.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Nemesis

“Well, if you do sense evil, tell me. I shall be glad to know.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Nemesis

“Surely,” said Miss Marple, aghast at an idea that had come into her mind, “there can’t be a bond of ruthlessness between us?” Was she, Jane Marple—could she ever be—ruthless? “D’you know,” said Miss Marple to herself, “it’s extraordinary, I never thought about it before. I believe, you know, I could be ruthless….”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Nemesis

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