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“La vie est vaine,Un peu damour,Un peu de haine,Et puisBonjour!La vie est brve:Un peu despoir,Un peu de rveEt puisBon soir! Ah, brief is Life,Loves short sweet way,With dreamings rife,And thenGood-d...”
“And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-""Ah, no, my friend-""From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, al...”
“Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.”
“What a queer topsy turvy world it was. It used to be the man who went to the wars, the woman who stayed at home. But here the positions were reversed.”
“Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric.”
“The two words expressed volumes.”
“When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time.”
“Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.”
“You don't appreciate a faithful husband when you've got one,' said Tommy.'All my friends tell me you never know with husbands,' said Tuppance.'You have the wrong kind of friends,' said Tommy.”
“I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. 'The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life' That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslik...”
“Why didn't they ask the Evans?”
“The man who came into the room did not look as though his name was, or could have ever been, Robinson. It might have been Demetrius, or Isaacstein, or Perenna - though not one or the other in parti...”
“Oh please tell me we're not doing the Poirot thing again the suspects in the library with the candlestick or whatever'.Max looked at him [DCI Cotton]. 'Fruitcake in this case. And what would you p...”
“When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.”
“There is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless--so sure. So generous and so demanding.”
“It is the courage, the insistence, the ruthless force of youth.”
“Alma didnt want Isabel to start singing the praises of their pet, a rescue beagle, or she wouldnt shush until sundown. Ive found the missing lady, Alma said. Say welcome home, Betsy Sweet.”
“History was my favourite subject at school and in my spare time I read historical novels voraciously from Heidi to the Scarlet Pimpernel and from Georgette Heyer to Agatha Christie.”
“There is at Christmas time a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c'est entendu, but nevertheless hypocrisy!”
“Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.”
