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British Mysteries Boxed Set QUOTES

British Mysteries Boxed Set QUOTES

1 " A radical does not mean a man who lives on radishes," remarked Crook, with some impatience; "and a Conservative does not mean a man who preserves jam. Neither, I assure you, does a Socialist mean a man who desires a social evening with the chimney-sweep. A Socialist means a man who wants all the chimneys swept and all the chimney-sweeps paid for it. "

― Agatha Christie , British Mysteries Boxed Set

2 " I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry," answered Father Brown. "The things that happen here do not seem to mean anything; they mean something somewhere else. Somewhere else retribution will come on the real offender. Here it often seems to fall on the wrong person. "

― Agatha Christie , British Mysteries Boxed Set

3 " Next year, maybe, she will look back on the experience and tell her friends that it was "fun"; but oh, the pity of it, not to gather the flowers of the Present, to let them wither, and never pluck them till they are dried wrecks of the Past! "

― Agatha Christie , British Mysteries Boxed Set

4 " if you're born on the wrong side of the wall, I can't see that it's wrong to climb over it. "

― Agatha Christie , British Mysteries Boxed Set

5 " followed his instructions, taking up my position by the baize door, and wondering what on earth lay behind the request. "

― Agatha Christie , British Mysteries Boxed Set

6 " If ever any one should put it all in a book,” he said to himself, “there are few who would believe it possible. It is not by my own strength that I have done it.” The man had no consciousness of blasphemy in him as he revolved this thought in his mind. He was as thoroughly in earnest as were any of those religious fanatics who, throughout history, have burned, sacked, and destroyed, committing every sin under heaven in the name of a God of peace and of mercy. "

― Agatha Christie , British Mysteries Boxed Set

7 " Shorne I remained up to the time at which this history opens, finding in Mr. Leigh and his wife the kindest and most indulgent "

― Agatha Christie , British Mysteries Boxed Set

8 " That woman's over-driven," said Father Brown; "that's the kind of woman that does her duty for twenty years, and then does something dreadful. "

― Agatha Christie , British Mysteries Boxed Set