Agatha Christie: Idézetek angolul (oldal 5)

“I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.”

“But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.”

“What good is money if it can't buy happiness?”

“One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.”

“People should be interested in books, not their authors.”

“Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.”

“The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.”

“A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.”

“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.”

“It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.”

“You should employ your little grey cells”

“When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.”

“She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.”

“A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves”

“They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.”

“There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.”

“Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.”

“It's what's inthat makes you happy or unhappy.”

“One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.”