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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

“I don't think I shall ever forget my first sight of Hercule Poirot. Of course, I got used to him later on, but to begin with it was a shock, and I think everyone else must have felt the same! I don't know what I'd imagined — something like Sherlock Holmes — […] Of course, I knew he was a foreigner, but I hadn't expected him to be quite as foreign as he was, if you know what I mean. When you saw him you just wanted to laugh! He was like something on the stage or at the pictures. […] He looked like a hairdresser in a comic play!”

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Agatha Christie livre Murder in Mesopotamia

Amy Leatheran
Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)

“And Mr. Burnaby said acutely: "Well, it doesn't seem to have done her much good, poor lass." But after a while they stopped talking about her and discussed instead who was going to win the Grand National. For, as Mr. Ferguson was saying at that minute in Luxor, it is not the past that matters but the future.”

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Agatha Christie livre Mort sur le Nil

Death on the Nile (1937)

““This affair must all be unravelled from within.” He tapped his forehead. “These little grey cells. It is ‘up to them’ — as you say over here.””

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Agatha Christie livre The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Hercule Poirot
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)

“It’s not impossible my dear. It’s just a very remarkable coincidence — and remarkable coincidences do happen.”

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Agatha Christie livre Sleeping Murder

Sleeping Murder (1976)

“I agree with you. It is here a family affair. It is a poison that works in the blood — it is intimate — it is deep-seated. There is here, I think, hate and knowledge…”

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

“Tout de même,” said Poirot, “since I cannot find anything, eh bien, then the logic falls out of the window.”

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Agatha Christie livre Third Girl

Third Girl (1966)

“Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.”

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Agatha Christie livre After the Funeral

After the Funeral (1953)

“I have often noticed that being a devoted wife saps the intellect,’ murmured Tommy.”

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Agatha Christie livre N or M?

N or M? (1941)

“She shrugged her shoulders slightly.
“What can one do?”
“You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.””

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Agatha Christie livre Le Crime de l'Orient-Express

Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

““You have been to the Riviera before, Georges?” said Poirot to his valet the following morning.
George was an intensely English, rather wooden-faced individual.
“Yes, sir. I was here two years ago when I was in the service of Lord Edward Frampton.”
“And to-day,” murmured his master, “you are here with Hercule Poirot. How one mounts in the world!””

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Agatha Christie livre The Mystery of the Blue Train

The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)

“The rottenness comes from within.”

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(1945)

“I don't pretend to be an author or to know anything about writing. I'm doing this simply because Dr Reilly asked me to, and somehow when Dr Reilly asks you to do a thing you don't like to refuse.”

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Agatha Christie livre Murder in Mesopotamia

Amy Leatheran
Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)

“It shows you, Madame, the dangers of conversation. It is a profound belief of mine that if you can induce a person to talk to you for long enough, on any subject whatever, sooner or later they will give themselves away.”

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Agatha Christie livre After the Funeral

After the Funeral (1953)

“I am not keeping back facts. Every fact that I know is in your possession. You can draw your own deductions from them.”

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Agatha Christie livre The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Hercule Poirot
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)

“Murder isn’t — it really isn’t — a thing to tamper with lightheartedly.”

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Agatha Christie livre Sleeping Murder

Sleeping Murder (1976)

““It makes me madder than a hornet to be disbelieved,” she explained.”

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Agatha Christie livre Le Crime de l'Orient-Express

Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

“Men always tell such silly lies.”

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Agatha Christie livre After the Funeral

After the Funeral (1953)

“"I have made my choice, Hori. I will share my life with you for good or evil, until death comes…" With his arms round her, with the sudden new sweetness of his face against hers, she was filled with an exultant richness of living.”

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(1945)

“They have, all of them, such wonderful good manners. Not taught good manners — the natural thing. I could never have believed till I came here that natural courtesy could be such a wonderful — such a positive thing.”

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Agatha Christie livre The Burden

The Burden (1956)

“I think perhaps it wasn’t a good idea to read aloud Gibbon to me in the evenings, because if it’s nice and hot by the fire, there’s something about Gibbon that does, rather, make you go to sleep.”

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A Murder is Announced (1950)

“Harold Waring, like many other Englishmen, was a bad linguist.”

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Agatha Christie livre The Labours of Hercules

The Labours of Hercules (1967)

“"You know that in all tombs there is always a false door?"
Renisenb stared. "Yes, of course."
"Well, people are like that too. They create a false door - to deceive. If they are conscious of weakness, of inefficiency, they make an imposing door of self-assertion, of bluster, of overwhelming authority - and, after a time, they get to believe in it themselves. They think, and everybody thinks, that they are like that. But behind that door, Renisenb, is a bare rock … And so when reality comes and touches them with the feather of truth - their true self reasserts itself."”

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(1945)

“What beats me — it always does — is how a man can be so clever and yet be such a perfect fool.”

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Agatha Christie livre The Pale Horse

The Pale Horse (1961)

“Yes, a private investigator like my Wilbraham Rice. The public have taken very strongly to Wilbraham Rice. He bites his nails and eats a lot of bananas. I don’t know why I made him bite his nails to start with — it’s really rather disgusting — but there it is. He started by biting his nails, and now he has to do it in every single book. So monotonous.”

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Agatha Christie livre Death in the Clouds

Death in the Clouds (1935)

“Now there is no murder without a motive.”

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Agatha Christie livre The Mysterious Affair at Styles

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)

““I — I don’t regret what I did. I think that you are a kind man, Mr. Poirot, and that possibly you might understand. You see, I’ve been so terribly afraid.”
“Afraid?”
“Yes, it’s difficult for a gentleman to understand, I expect. But you see, I’m not a clever woman at all, and I’ve no training and I’m getting older — and I’m so terrified for the future. I’ve not been able to save anything — how could I with Emily to be cared for? — and as I get older and more incompetent there won’t be any one who wants me. They’ll want somebody young and brisk. I’ve — I’ve known so many people like I am — nobody wants you and you live in a one room and you can’t have a fire or any warmth and not very much to eat and at last you can’t even pay the rent on your room … There are Institutions, of course, but it’s not very easy to get into them unless you have influential friends, and I haven’t. There are a good many others situated like I am — poor companions — untrained useless women with nothing to look forward to but a deadly fear…””

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Agatha Christie livre The Labours of Hercules

The Labours of Hercules (1967)

“I must have a talk with you, David, and learn all the new ideas. As far as I can see, one must hate everybody but at the same time give them free medical attention and a lot of extra education, poor things! All those helpless little children herded into schoolhouses every day — and cod liver oil forced down babies’ throats whether they like it or not — such nasty-smelling stuff.”

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Lucy Angkatell
The Hollow (1946)

“What any woman saw in some particular man was beyond the comprehension of the average intelligent male. It just was so. A woman who could be intelligent about everything else in the world could be a complete fool when it came to some particular man.”

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Agatha Christie livre After the Funeral

After the Funeral (1953)

“Like most Englishmen, he felt something strongly, and proceeded to muddle around until he had, somehow or other, cleared up the mess.”

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Agatha Christie livre N or M?

N or M? (1941)

“Yes. I like to see people get angry. I like it very much. But here in England they do not get angry like they do in Spain. In Spain they take out their knives and they curse and shout. In England they do nothing, just get very red in the face and shut up their mouths tight.”

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

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