“To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Seven Dials Mystery
“fiction is founded on truth... unless things did happen, people couldn't think of them.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Seven Dials Mystery
“In my opinion half the people who spend their lives avoiding being run over by buses had much better be run over and put safely out of the way. They're no good.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Seven Dials Mystery
“It's a rotten job, but somebody's got to do it.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Seven Dials Mystery
“It’s odd, isn’t it, why farce so often seems to get mixed up with tragedy?”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Seven Dials Mystery
“What I think is a different matter. Maybe I think some rather curious things—but until thinking's got you somewhere it's no use talking about it.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Seven Dials Mystery
“But nothing will suit him now but the best! He's got on wonderfully, and naturally he wants something to show for it, but many's the time I wonder where it will end.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Seven Dials Mystery
“I often find these self-made men are inconsiderate. Very possibly that is why they amass such large fortunes.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Seven Dials Mystery
“Bundle frowned. This business of the clocks was curious. She must get hold of Bill Eversleigh. He had been there, she knew. To think was to act with Bundle. She got up and went over to the writing desk. It was an inlaid affair with a lid that rolled back. Bundle sat down at it, pulled a sheet of notepaper towards her and wrote. Dear Bill,—”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Seven Dials Mystery
“Come and have a cocktail. It's nearly lunch time.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Seven Dials Mystery
“I don't like anyone who comes and dies in my house on purpose to annoy me," said Lord Caterham obstinately.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Seven Dials Mystery
“It all started when I saw myself dead.”
― Denise Grover Swank, quote from Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes
“Phoenix song is magical: it is reputed to increase the courage of the pure of heart and to strike fear into the heart of the impure.”
― J.K. Rowling, quote from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
“The cloud of the consommé’s warmth enveloped her face and revived her poise. In the liquid a slice of lemon lay at fetal peace.”
― John Updike, quote from Couples
“Losing in New Hampshire was usually permanent, and winning was a guaranteed fast ride to somewhere—maybe the White House—or at least a fiery exit. Probably soon, but so what?”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie
“Now a small woman, with dangerous curves. I could bite into her.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Bonds of Justice
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