The Secret of Chimneys (Superintendent Battle, #1) QUOTES

2 " When I want to get anywhere, I usually do. "

― Agatha Christie , The Secret of Chimneys (Superintendent Battle, #1)

4 " No woman respects a man when he's doing a thing thoroughly badly. "

― Agatha Christie , The Secret of Chimneys (Superintendent Battle, #1)

6 " Hence King’s Messengers and all that. In medieval days you gave a fellow a signet ring as a sort of open sesame. ‘The King’s Ring! Pass, my lord!’ And usually it was the other fellow who had stolen it. I always wonder why some bright lad never hit on the expedient of copying the ring—making a dozen or so, and selling them at a hundred ducats apiece. They seem to have had no initiative in the Middle Ages. "

― Agatha Christie , The Secret of Chimneys (Superintendent Battle, #1)

8 " But that's the worst of these attractive young women with affectionate dispositions. They'll say anything, and they mean absolutely nothing by it. "

― Agatha Christie , The Secret of Chimneys (Superintendent Battle, #1)

10 " Oh, Lord,” muttered Anthony, “what a lot of funny people it does take to make a world. "

― Agatha Christie , The Secret of Chimneys (Superintendent Battle, #1)

12 " It looks like a hand," he remarked. "But if you say so, I'm quite prepared to admit that it's a Cubist picture of Sunset at the North Pole. "

― Agatha Christie , The Secret of Chimneys (Superintendent Battle, #1)

14 " me to be actually a member of the house "

― Agatha Christie , The Secret of Chimneys (Superintendent Battle, #1)