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A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7) QUOTES

A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7) QUOTES

1 " Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that. "

― Agatha Christie , A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7)

2 " You think he is marrying her for money?'

'Yes, I do. Don't you think so?'

'I should say quite certainly,' said Miss Marple. 'Like young Ellis who married Marion Bates, the rich ironmonger's daughter. She was a very plain girl and absolutely besotted about him. However, it turned out quite well. People like young Ellis and this Gerald Wright are only really disagreeable when they've married a poor girl for love. They are so annoyed with themselves for doing it that they take it out of the girl. But if they marry a rich girl they continue to respect her. "

― Agatha Christie , A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7)

3 " He, of course, is a liar, but that doesn't really matter because, if you know liars are liars, it comes to the same thing. "

― Agatha Christie , A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7)

4 " That gimcrack little desk, probably sham antique Louis XIV. She had said something to him once about there being a secret drawer in it. Secret drawer! That would not fool the police long. "

― Agatha Christie , A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7)

5 " Natural affection is one thing,” said Miss Ramsbottom, “and I hope I’ve got as much of it as anyone. But I won’t stand for wickedness. Wickedness has to be destroyed. "

― Agatha Christie , A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7)

6 " I had a lovely childhood in Ireland, riding, hunting, and a great big, bare, draughty house with lots and lots of sun in it. If you’ve had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you, can they? It was afterwards—when I grew up—that things seemed always to go wrong. "

― Agatha Christie , A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7)

7 " Women were all the same. They promised to burn things and then didn’t. "

― Agatha Christie , A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7)

8 " Yew berries?” “Berries or leaves. Highly poisonous. Taxine, of course, is the alkaloid. "

― Agatha Christie , A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7)

9 " Oude zonden hebben lange schaduwen. "

― Agatha Christie , A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7)

10 " The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small— "

― Agatha Christie , A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7)

11 " Breakfast with the Borgias. "

― Agatha Christie , A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7)

12 " He doesn’t seem to have been one of those food faddists who’ll eat any mortal thing so long as it isn’t cooked. My sister’s husband’s like that. Raw carrots, raw peas, raw turnips. But "

― Agatha Christie , A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7)

13 " I should hardly advise you to go too much by all I’ve told you. I’m a malicious creature. "

― Agatha Christie , A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7)

14 " It’s a classic, isn’t it, sir?” said Hay. “Third Programme stuff. I don’t listen to the Third Programme. "

― Agatha Christie , A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7)

15 " People aren’t always what they think themselves to be,” Inspector Neele pointed out. "

― Agatha Christie , A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7)

16 " Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye.
Four and twenty blackbirds,
Baked in a pie.

When the pie was opened
The birds began to sing;
Wasn't that a dainty dish,
To set before the king.

The king was in his counting house,
Counting out his money;
The queen was in the parlour,
Eating bread and honey.

The maid was in the garden,
Hanging out the clothes,
When down came a blackbird
And pecked off her nose. "

― Agatha Christie , A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7)

17 " Snobbery here raised its hideous head and marooned her on a permanent island of loneliness. "

― Agatha Christie , A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7)

18 " Oh yes,” said Miss Marple fervently. “I always believe the worst. What is so sad is that one is usually justified in doing so. "

― Agatha Christie , A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7)

19 " The typists might have been so many blackbeetles. "

― Agatha Christie , A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7)

20 " No question is ever settled until it is settled right. Kipling said that. Nobody reads Kipling nowadays, but he was a great man. "

― Agatha Christie , A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7)