“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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“He could just look at people and listen to them and suddenly he'd know things about them.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from First Meetings in Ender's Universe
“The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender for the sake of group thought. And when you suspend your individual beauty you also give up a lot of your humanity. You will do things in the name of a group that you would never do on your own. Injuring, hurting, killing, drinking are all part of it, because you've lost your identity, because you now owe your allegiance to this thing that's bigger than you are and that controls you.”
― George Carlin, quote from Last Words
“Michiko Nogami (1946—1982)”
Is she more apparent because she is not
anymore forever? Is her whiteness more white
because she was the color of pale honey?
A smokestack making the sky more visible.
A dead woman filling the whole world. Michiko
said, “The roses you gave me kept me awake
with the sound of their petals falling.”
― Jack Gilbert, quote from The Great Fires
“Sometimes,’ he starts, ‘the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing you were never meant to have them.”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don’t you?”
“Of course I believe in the truth,” said Rhoda, staring.
“Yes, you say that, but perhaps you haven’t thought about it. The truth hurts sometimes – and destroys one’s illusions.”
“I’d rather have it all the same.” said Rhoda.
“So would I. But I don’t know that we’re wise.”
Mrs. Oliver; Rhoda Dawes”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Cards on the Table
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