You weren't quite accurate just now."
"I? Not accurate?" Poirot sounded affronted.
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.
Agatha ChristieTag: intuition agatha-christie
Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.
Agatha ChristieThe secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Agatha ChristieTo keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.
Agatha ChristieThe past is the father of the present.
Agatha ChristieOne knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.
Agatha ChristieNothing is so sad, in my opinion, as the devastation wrought by age.
My poor friend. I have described him many times. Now to convey to you the difference. Crippled with arthritis, he propelled himself about in a wheelchair. His once plump frame had fallen in. He was a thin little man now. His face was lined and wrinkled. His moustache and hair, and hair, it is true, were still of a jet black colour, but candidly, though I would not for the world have hurt his feelings by saying so to him, this was a mistake. There comes a moment when hair dye is only too painfully obvious. There had been a time when I had been surprised to learn that the blackness of Poirot's hair came out of a bottle. But now the theatricality was apparent and merely created the impression that he wore a wig and had adorned his upper lip to amuse children!
You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.
Agatha ChristieIn an English village, you turn over a stone and have no idea what will crawl out.
Miss Marple
Tag: mystery
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