“Mr. Satterthwaite looked cheered.
Suddenly an idea struck him. His jaw fell.
"My goodness," he cried, "I've only just realized it! That rascal, with his poisoned cocktail! Anyone might have drunk it! It might have been me!"
"There is an even more terrible possibility that you have not considered," said Poirot.
"Eh?"
"It might have been me," said Hercule Poirot.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Three Act Tragedy
“One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Three Act Tragedy
“It seems dreadful to say so, but there is something attractive to a girl in being told anyone is a bad man. She thinks at once that her love will reform him.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Three Act Tragedy
“But yes, exactly that. Think! With thought, all problems can be solved.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Three Act Tragedy
“I was such a foolish girl - girls are foolish, Mr. Satterthwaite. They are so sure of themselves, so convinced they know best. People write and talk a lot of a ‘woman’s instinct.’ I don’t believe, Mr.Satterthwaite, that there is any such thing. There doesn’t seem to be anything that warns girls against a certain type of man. Nothing in themselves, I mean. Their parents warn them, but that’s no good - one doesn’t believe. It seems dreadful to say so, but there is something attractive to a girl in being told anyone is a bad man. She thinks at once that her love will reform him.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Three Act Tragedy
“The great merit of being a doctor,” said Sir Bartholomew, “is that you are not obliged to follow your own advice.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Three Act Tragedy
“Een man die zichzelf voortdurend dramatiseert, wordt wel eens verkeerd beoordeeld,' stelde Satterthwaite vast. 'Je neemt de dingen die echt in hem zijn ook niet meer au sérieux.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Three Act Tragedy
“Een van de voordelen als je dokter bent, is dat je je eigen raad niet hoeft op te volgen,' zei Sir Bartholomew.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Three Act Tragedy
“This novel was the author’s gift to her brother-in-law, who had”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Three Act Tragedy
“Eve. The Lee family reunion, never a lively affair, is interrupted”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Three Act Tragedy
Agatha Christie
Born place: in Torquay, Devon, England, The United Kingdom
Born date September 15, 1890
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“Since when does reading suck? Who says that? If I ran the world, people who didn’t read would be the first to go. Boom. Put them out of their misery.”
― Skyla Madi, quote from Consumed
“I thought of Al in his dream, looking nothing like this, more like an elegant bat. Broken? Perhaps, but I had put his butterfly back together with my blood. “I never liked the movie Titanic,” I said, and he grunted, his gaze sharpening on me. “They both could have gotten on that damn door.”
― Kim Harrison, quote from Ever After
“The reason life is so strange is that so often people have no choice,”
― William Maxwell, quote from So Long, See You Tomorrow
“Dear Anyone: This is a letter from one anyone to another anyone, no names required, because nobody really knows anyway. Names don't make a hell of a lot of difference. The world is made up entirely of strangers. Millions and millions of them. Everyone is a stranger to everyone else. Sometimes we think we know other people, especially those we supposedly are close to, but if we really knew them, why are we so often surprised by the shit they do? Like, parents are always surprised by what their kids will do. They raise them from the time they are babies, spend each and every day with them, think they're these goddamn fucking angels, and then one day the cops come to the door and say hey, guess what parents? Your kid just bashed some other kid's head in with a baseball bat. Or you're the kid, and you think things are pretty fucking OK, and then one day this guy who's supposed to be your dad says so long, have a nice life. And you think, what the fuck is this? So years later, your mom ends up living with another guy, and he seems OK, but you think, when's it coming? That's what life is. Life is always asking yourself, when's it coming? Because if it hasn't come for a long time, you know you're fucking due. All the best, Anyone.”
― Linwood Barclay, quote from No Time for Goodbye
“The only truly intersting side of the matter was the intimate design of the injury, the fact that it was so penetrating, custom-made exactly to your measure. It's fascinating that hatred should be so personal as to be almost loving. The knife and the wound aching for each other.”
― Saul Bellow, quote from Herzog
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