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161 " Maybe it is because I am an old man, but I find, M. Poirot, that there is something about the defenselessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless - so sure. So generous and so demanding. "
― Agatha Christie , Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #22)
162 " He felt a strange pang. It was, perhaps, the fault of old Mr Jonathan, speaking of Juliet... No Juliet here - unless perhaps one could imagine Juliet a survivor - living on, deprived of Romeo... Was it not an essential part of Juliet's make-up that that she should die young? "
163 " Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride. "
164 " Who was there to guard youth from pain and death - youth who could not, who had never been able to, guard itself? Did they know too little? Or was it that they knew too much, and therefore thought they knew it all? "
― Agatha Christie , Nemesis
165 " It has been my experience, that women possess little or no pride where love affairs are concerned. Pride is a quality often on their lips, but not apparent in their actions. "
― Agatha Christie , Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5)
166 " ...But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.''What is that?'' Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail. "
― Agatha Christie , Murder in the Mews (Hercule Poirot, #16.5)
167 " Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night. "
― Agatha Christie , Endless Night
168 " Sitting here, literally amongst the dead, reckoning up gains and losses, casting accounts, I have come to see gains that cannot be reckoned in terms of wealth, and losses that are more damaging than loss of a crop... I look at the River and I see the lifeblood of Egypt that has existed before we lived and that will exist after we die... Life and death, Renisenb, are not of such great account. "
― Agatha Christie , Death Comes as the End
169 " Thought is yours only. Nobody can alter or influence the use you mean to make of it. "
― Agatha Christie , The Mysterious Mr. Quin (Harley Quin)
170 " You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham.She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?'You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.'That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion. "
― Agatha Christie , Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #9)
171 " Miss Howard: Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last Chapter. Everyone dumbfounded. Real crime - you'd know at once. "
― Agatha Christie , The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
172 " The great thing in these cases is to keep an absolutely open mind. Most crimes, you see, are so absurdly simple. "
― Agatha Christie , The Moving Finger
173 " I think people more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possible because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you. "
― Agatha Christie
174 " Her sleep was enlivened by several dreams. One where Professor Wanstead's bushy eyebrows fell off because they were not his own eyebrows, but false ones. As she woke again, her first impression was that which often follows dreams, a belief that the dream in question had solved everything. 'Of course,' she thought, 'of course!' His eyebrows were false and that solved the whole thing. He was the criminal. "
175 " If Hori were to die, I should not forget! Hori is a song in my heart for ever... That means-that there is no more death... "
176 " It's all very well to talk like that,” said Mr. Rafiel. “We, you say? What do you think I can do about it? I can't even walk without help. How can you and I set about preventing a murder? You're about a hundred and I'm a broken-up old crock. "
― Agatha Christie , A Caribbean Mystery
177 " It is romantic, yes,’ agreed Hercule Poirot. ‘It is peaceful. The sun shines. The sea is blue. But you forget, Miss Brewster, there is evil everywhere under the sun’. "
178 " A susceptible child is capable of great hero worship, and a young mind can easily be obsessed by an idea which persists into adult life. "
― Agatha Christie , Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot, #13)
179 " I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries. "
― Agatha Christie , Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #32)
180 " The eye is diverted from the real business, it is caught by the spectacular action that means nothing--nothing at all. "