“Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.”
Agatha Christie book The Labours of Hercules
Source: The Labours of Hercules
Quotes from bookThe Labours of Hercules
The Labours of Hercules is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1947 and in the UK by Collins Crime Club in September of the same year. The US edition retailed at $2.50 and the UK edition at eight shillings and sixpence .It features Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and gives an account of twelve cases with which he intends to close his career as a private detective. His regular associates make cameo appearances, as does Chief Inspector Japp. The stories were all first published in periodicals between 1939 and 1947.
“It is the misfortune of small, precise men always to hanker after large and flamboyant women.”
Agatha Christie book The Labours of Hercules
The Labours of Hercules (1967)
“Harold Waring, like many other Englishmen, was a bad linguist.”
Agatha Christie book The Labours of Hercules
The Labours of Hercules (1967)
“Words had become to him a means of obscuring facts — not of revealing them.”
Agatha Christie book The Labours of Hercules
The Labours of Hercules (1967)
Context: Words had become to him a means of obscuring facts — not of revealing them. He was an adept in the art of the useful phrase — that is to say the phrase that falls soothingly on the ear and is quite empty of meaning.
