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“La vie est vaine. Un peu d’amour, Un peu de haine, Et puis bonjour. La vie est brève. Un peu d’espoir, Un peu de rêve, Et puis bonsoir.”

Agatha Christie livre Mort sur le Nil

Death on the Nile

“Les affaires - les affaires"-M. Bauc”

Agatha Christie livre Le Crime de l'Orient-Express

Murder on the Orient Express

Agatha Christie: Citations en anglais

“From a distance he had the bland aspect of a philanthropist.”

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Agatha Christie livre Le Crime de l'Orient-Express

Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

“She came in with coffee and biscuits at half-past eleven with her mouth pursed up very prunes and prisms, and would hardly speak to me.”

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Agatha Christie livre Surprise! Surprise!

Surprise! Surprise! (1965)

“You’re frightfully BBC in your language this afternoon, Albert,’ said Tuppance, with some exasperation.
Albert looked slightly taken aback and reverted to a more natural form of speech.
‘I was listening to a very interesting talk on pond life last night,’ he explained.”

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Agatha Christie livre N or M?

N or M? (1941)

“What else will you have? Nice banana and bacon sandwich?”

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Agatha Christie livre The Pale Horse

The Pale Horse (1961)

““Here are my roses. Like ’em?”
“They’re beautiful,” said Laura politely.
“On the whole,” said Mr. Baldock, “I prefer them to human beings. They don’t last as long for one thing.””

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Agatha Christie livre The Burden

The Burden (1956)

“The fellow is an absolute outsider, anyone can see that. He’s got a great black beard, and wears patent leather boots in all weathers!”

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Agatha Christie livre The Mysterious Affair at Styles

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)

“Well, of course, Gwenda dear, you can always do that when you’ve exhausted every other line of approach, but I always think myself it’s better to examine the simplest and most commonplace explanations first.”

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Agatha Christie livre Sleeping Murder

Sleeping Murder (1976)

“He could have shot her from behind a hedge in the good old Irish fashion and probably got away with it.”

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A Murder is Announced (1950)

“Proof must be solid break walls of facts.”

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(1945)

“Blood tells — always remember that — blood tells.”

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Agatha Christie livre The Mysterious Affair at Styles

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)

“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 livre 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 livre 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 livre 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 livre Le Crime de l'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 livre 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 livre Mort sur le Nil

Death on the Nile (1937)

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

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Agatha Christie livre The Mysterious Affair at Styles

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)

“How averse human beings were ever to admit ignorance!”

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Agatha Christie livre After the Funeral

After the Funeral (1953)

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

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Agatha Christie livre 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 livre Le Crime de l'Orient-Express

Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

“It's as easy to utter lies as truth.”

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(1945)

“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 livre 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 livre 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 livre 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 livre 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 livre N or M?

N or M? (1941)

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