Home > Work > At Bertram's Hotel

At Bertram's Hotel QUOTES

At Bertram's Hotel QUOTES

1 " … one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back – that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street. "

― Agatha Christie , At Bertram's Hotel

2 " I learned (what I suppose I really knew already) that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back—that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street, isn’t it? "

― Agatha Christie , At Bertram's Hotel

3 " I was born to live dangerously. "

― Agatha Christie , At Bertram's Hotel

4 " Murder—the wish to do murder—is something quite different. It—how shall I say?—it defies God. "

― Agatha Christie , At Bertram's Hotel

5 " It's just that I am not really a safe person to be with. The life I'd lead wouldn't be a safe life. "

― Agatha Christie , At Bertram's Hotel

6 " Yes,” said Miss Marple. “The children of Lucifer are often beautiful—And as we know, they flourish like the green bay tree. "

― Agatha Christie , At Bertram's Hotel

7 " There was, of course, central heating, but it was not apparent. "

― Agatha Christie , At Bertram's Hotel

8 " can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back—that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street, isn’t it? "

― Agatha Christie , At Bertram's Hotel

9 " One can never go back, one should not ever try to go back, the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn't it? "

― Agatha Christie , At Bertram's Hotel

10 " There were also American visitors fascinated by seeing the titled English really getting down to their traditional afternoon tea. "

― Agatha Christie , At Bertram's Hotel

11 " Extraordinary fellow. Took me by the neck when I wasn’t expecting it, and wrung it like a chicken.” She moved her neck gingerly. "

― Agatha Christie , At Bertram's Hotel

12 " The Roar of the engine penetrated through Bertram's Hotel from the street outside. Colonel Luscombe perceived that Ladislaus Malinowski was one of Elvira's heroes. "Well," he thought to himself, "better than one of those pop singers or crooners or long-haired Beatles or whatever they called themselves." Luscombe was old-fashioned in his views of young men. "

― Agatha Christie , At Bertram's Hotel

13 " Miss Marple seldom gave anyone the benefit of the doubt; she invariably thought the worst, and nine times out of ten, so she insisted, she was right in so doing. "

― Agatha Christie , At Bertram's Hotel

14 " possible, but he didn’t think so. "

― Agatha Christie , At Bertram's Hotel

15 " The children of Lucifer are often beautiful— "

― Agatha Christie , At Bertram's Hotel

16 " Я не поставил бы на них против нее! Таких, как она, одна на тысячу. – Он вздохнул. – Она из необузданных. Такие встречаются в каждом поколении. Их не приручить, не заставить жить в обществе по его законам. У них свой путь. Если они святые, то идут лечить прокаженных или погибают мучениками в джунглях. Если они противоположного толка, то совершают неслыханные зверства, а порой они просто дикари! Они бы, возможно, вписались в жизнь в другие времена, когда каждый стоял за себя, боролся за выживание. Такой мир им бы подошел. А этот – нет. "

― Agatha Christie , At Bertram's Hotel

17 " It was merely a white-haired elderly cleric who came in. He stood for a moment looking round him with a slightly puzzled air as of one who fails to understand where he was or how he had come there. Such an experience was no novelty to Canon Pennyfather. It came to him in trains when he did not remember where he had come from, where he was going, or why! It came to him when he was walking along the street, it came to him when he found himself sitting on a committee. It had come to him before now when he was in his cathedral stall, and did not know whether he had already preached his sermon or was about to do so. "

― Agatha Christie , At Bertram's Hotel

18 " Curiosity, or what she preferred herself to call ‘taking an interest’ in other people’s affairs, was undoubtedly one of Miss Marple’s characteristics. "

― Agatha Christie , At Bertram's Hotel