Agatha Christie: Citáty anglicky (strana 7)

“Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts.

-"The Blood-Stained Pavement”

“Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.”

“Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express”

“Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?”

“He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.”

“Never do I deceive you, Hastings. I only permit you to deceive yourself.”

“For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away…”

“That is why most great love stories are tragedies.”

“Two people rarely see the same thing.”

“And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.”

“I like to see an angry Englishman,” said Poirot. “They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.”

“The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.”

“I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.”

“The past is the father of the present.”

“The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.”

“If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.”

“One must make one's own mistakes”

“I am all that there is of the most real.”

“I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.”