“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
“But man had changed. He had lost the old knowledge and old skills. His mind had become a flaccid thing. He lived from one day to the next without any shining goal. But he still kept the old vices—the vices that had become virtues from his own viewpoint and raised him by his own bootstraps. He kept the unwavering belief that his was the only kind, the only life that mattered—the smug egoism that made him the self-appointed lord of all creation.”
― Clifford D. Simak, quote from City
“Of course, I should have got rid of you. I should have shaken you out of my life as a man shakes from his raiment a thing that has stung him.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from De Profundis and Other Writings
“When it's just sex, you're allowed to be predatory, to make the first move, to entice them into bed, because it's not necessary to make them fall in love with you.”
― Jane Green, quote from Mr. Maybe
“I can't even tell you how good it felt to see him. It felt even better when he reached through the metal grate, wrapped his fingers around the front of my shirt, dragged me forward, and kissed me through the bars.
"Sorry" he said-only not looking to sorry, if you know what I mean.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from When Lightning Strikes
“You're sitting with some guys, and you're playing and you go, "Ooh, yeah!" That feeling is worth more than anything. There's a certain moment when you realize that you've actually just left the planet for a bit and that nobody can touch you. You're elevated because you're with a bunch of guys that want to do the same thing as you. And when it works, baby, you've got wings. You know you've been somewhere most people will never get; you've been to a special place.”
― Keith Richards, quote from Life
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