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1 " Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush! "
― Agatha Christie , The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)
2 " Two people rarely see the same thing. "
3 " The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows. "
4 " When will a woman lie? Sometimes for herself. Usually for the man she loves. Always for her children. "
5 " My friend, in working upon a case, one does not take into account only the things that are "mentioned". There is no reason to mention many things which may be important. Equally, there is often an excellent reason for not mentioning them. "
6 " Man is an unoriginal animal. Unoriginal within the law in his daily respectable life, equally unoriginal outside the law. If a man commits a crime, any other crime he commits will resemble it closely. "
7 " The little grey cells, my friend, the little grey cells! They told me. "
8 " A rich man and his money are not so easily parted. Me, I have seen a well-known millionaire turn out a tramful of people to seek for a dropped halfpenny. "
9 " Sommige van de grootste misdadigers die ik heb gekend hadden engelengezichten,' sprak Poirot opgewekt. 'Een misvorming van de grijze cellen kan heel goed samengaan met het gezicht van een madonna. "
10 " There! Now we're friends!" declared the minx. "Say you're sorry about my sister -""I am desolated!""That's a good boy! "
11 " This hunting of the fox, you need the dogs, no?''Hounds,' I corrected gently. 'Yes, of course.''But yet,' Poirot wagged his finger at me. 'You did not descend from your horse and run along the ground smelling with your nose and uttering loud Ow Ows? "
12 " For whom will a woman lie? Sometimes for herself, usually for the man she loves, always for her children. "
13 " Old Francoise has the common idea as regards the English--that they are mad, and liable to do the most unaccountable things at any moment. "
14 " It would mean a good film, the story that you have recounted to me there - but it bears no sort of resemblance to everyday life.''I admit that I haven't gone into all the details, but-''You have gone farther - you have ignored them magnificently. "
15 " Arrange your ideas. Be methodical. Be orderly. There is the secret of success. "
16 " Some of the greatest criminals I have known had the faces of angels. "
17 " A malformation of the grey cells may coincide quite easily with the face of a Madonna. "
18 " The sons of rich men are proverbially wild. "
19 " If it is necessary for a criminal to be a consummate actress, then by all means assume her to be one. "
20 " I neither see nor comprehend. You make all these confounded mysteries, and it’s useless asking you to explain. You always like keeping something up your sleeve to the last minute. "
