“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.”

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

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