Agatha Christie · 351 pages
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“Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
“One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
“Heather Badcock meant no harm. She never did mean harm, but there is no doubt that people like Heather Badcock (and like my old friend Alison Wilde), are capable of doing a lot of harm because they lack - not kindness, they have kindness - but any real consideration for the way their actions may affect other people. She though always of what an action meant to her, never sparing a thought to what it might mean to somebody else.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
“Hemlock in the cocktails, wasn't it? Something of that kind.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
“She had a great power of love and hate but no stability. That’s what’s so sad for anyone, to be born with no stability.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
“Murder develops. Yes, like a photograph, isn’t it?” “It’s very much like photography really,” said Dermot. “Quite a good comparison of yours.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
“Do you remember the Lady of Shalott? The mirror crack’d from side to side: ‘The doom has come upon me,’ cried the Lady of Shalott. Well, that’s what she looked like. People laugh at Tennyson nowadays, but the Lady of Shalott always thrilled me when I was young and it still does.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
“Such a sweet letter from Lady Conway... You remember my telling you about her? Her memory's bad. Can't recognize her relations always and tells them to go away."
"That might be shrewdness really," said Miss Marple, "rather than a loss of memory.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
“Evidence of identification was given by the husband, and the only other evidence was medical. Heather Badcock had died as a result of four grains of hy-ethyl-dexyl-barbo-quinde-lorytate, or, let us be frank, some such name.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
“Miss Marple made a ladylike noise of vexation like a cat sneezing to indicate profound disgust.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
“She couldn't let the past go and she could never see the future as it really was, only as she imagined it to be.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
“One has to dare if one wants to get anywhere,' said Mrs. Bantry.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
“The trouble with her is that either she thinks that at last she's got to that spot or place or that moment in her life where everything's like a fairy tale come true, that nothing can go wrong, that she'll never be unhappy again; or else she's down in the dumps, a woman whose life is ruined, who's never known love and happiness and who never will again.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
“Jungeltelegrafen er stort sett som før, innrømmet fru Bantry.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
“Man må våge viss man vil noen steder, sa fru Bantry.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
“In my experience, bossy women seldom get themselves murdered. I can't think why not. When you come to think of it, it's rather a pity.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
“Miss Marple made the kind of noise that would once have been written down as 'tut-tut'.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
“Old Laycock then displayed his particular genius which was that of enthusiastic agreement and subsequent lack of performance.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
“Murder develops. Yes, like a photograph, isn't it?”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
“If you look into somebody's soul by accident, you feel a bit embarrassed about cashing in.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Agatha Christie
Born place: in Torquay, Devon, England, The United Kingdom
Born date September 15, 1890
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