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“I could think of nothing more insufferable than members of one’s own gang dropping in full of sympathy and their own affairs.”

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Agatha Christie kniha The Moving Finger

The Moving Finger (1942)

“Pilar sat squeezed up against the window and thought how very odd the English smelt.”

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Murder for Christmas (1939, Holiday for Murder, Hercule Poirot’s Christmas)

“It’s so messy bleeding like a pig.”

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A Murder is Announced (1950)

“The reason he liked attending rich patients rather than poor ones was the he could exercise his active imagination in prescribing for their ailments.”

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Agatha Christie kniha Surprise! Surprise!

Surprise! Surprise! (1965)

“But when investing money, keep, I beg of you, Hastings, strictly to the conservative.”

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Hercule Poirot’s Early Cases (1974)

““Well, what are you doing? What have you done?”
“I am sitting in this char,” said Poirot. “Thinking,” he added.
“Is that all?” said Mrs. Oliver.
“It is the important thing,” said Poirot.”

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Agatha Christie kniha Third Girl

Third Girl (1966)

“Do you always travel first-class, Mr. Hardman?”
“Yes, sir. The firm pays my travelling expenses.”

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Agatha Christie kniha Murder on the Orient Express

He winked.
Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

“Poirot shook his forefinger so fiercely at me that I quailed before it. “Beware! Peril to the detective who says: ‘It is so small — it does not matter. It will not agree. I will forget it.’ That way lies confusion! Everything matters.””

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Agatha Christie kniha The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“Ah!”
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)

“There’s no reason why women shouldn’t behave like rational beings,” said Simon stolidly.
Poirot said dryly:
“Quite frequently they do. That is even more upsetting!”

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Agatha Christie kniha Death on the Nile

Death on the Nile (1937)

““Tcha! Tcha!” cried Poirot irritably. “You argue like a child.””

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Agatha Christie kniha The Mysterious Affair at Styles

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)

““It makes her rather alarming,” I said.
“Sincerity has that effect,” said Miss Marple.”

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Agatha Christie kniha The Moving Finger

The Moving Finger (1942)

“Remember, he was a fanatic, and there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.”

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Hercule Poirot’s Early Cases (1974)

““Me, I am convinced it is the truth,” said M. Bouc, becoming more and more enamoured of his theory.”

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Agatha Christie kniha Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

“He had not remembered her name, but he had seen her dance — had been carried away and fascinated by the supreme art that can make you forget art.”

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Agatha Christie kniha The Labours of Hercules

The Labours of Hercules (1967)

“"Life is like a train Mademoiselle. It goes on. And it is a good thing that that is so."
"Why?"
"Because the train gets to its journey's end at last, and there is a proverb about that in your language, Mademoiselle."
"'Journeys end in lovers meeting'" Lenox laughed. "That is not going to be true for me."
"Yes — yes, it is true. You are young, younger than you yourself know. Trust the train Mademoiselle, for it is le bon Dieu who drives it".”

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Agatha Christie kniha The Mystery of the Blue Train

The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)

“Without interest (hers not the type to wonder why!) but with perfect efficiently, Miss Lemon had fulfilled her task.”

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Agatha Christie kniha The Labours of Hercules

The Labours of Hercules (1967)

“For Poirot, uttering a hoarse and inarticulate cry, again annihilated his masterpiece of cards and putting his hands over his eyes swayed backwards and forwards, apparently suffering the keenest agony.
“Good heavens Poirot!” I cried. “What is the matter? Are you taken ill?””

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Agatha Christie kniha The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“No, no,” he gasped. “It is — it is — that I have an idea!”
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)

“There is always something about conscious tact that is very irritating.”

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Agatha Christie kniha N or M?

N or M? (1941)