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Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle, #4) QUOTES

Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle, #4) QUOTES

1 " No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and dearest. "

― Agatha Christie , Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle, #4)

2 " I mean that if you are not absolutely sure of a thing, it is so difficult to commit yourself to a definite course of action. "

― Agatha Christie , Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle, #4)

3 " Living alone, with no one to consult or talk to, one might easily become melodramatic, and imagine things which had no foundation on fact. "

― Agatha Christie , Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle, #4)

4 " For, once there's a death, one doesn't like to think there's been harsh words spoken and no chance of taking them back. "

― Agatha Christie , Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle, #4)

5 " Truth is seldom romantic. "

― Agatha Christie , Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle, #4)

6 " Sanity is the one unbelievable bore. One must be mad, slightly twisted - then one sees life from a new and entrancing angle. "

― Agatha Christie , Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle, #4)

7 " Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else."

"Oh! my dear Love, I know. You want reality. So do I. What's between us will last for ever because it's founded on reality. "

― Agatha Christie , Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle, #4)

8 " Anybody who can belive six impossible things before breakfast wins hands down in this game. "

― Agatha Christie , Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle, #4)

9 " Men have courage-one knows that...but they are more easily deceived than women. "

― Agatha Christie , Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle, #4)

10 " It's no good going back over the past. It's the future one has to live for. "

― Agatha Christie , Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle, #4)

11 " No, no, my dear boy, that’s where you’re wrong. It’s very easy to kill—so long as no one suspects you. And you see, the person in question is just the last person anyone would suspect! "

― Agatha Christie , Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle, #4)

12 " Truth,” she said, “is seldom romantic. "

― Agatha Christie , Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle, #4)

13 " My boy, I know what I’m talking about. Mind you, I’m not saying marriage doesn’t come hard on a fellow at first. It does. Fellow says to himself, damn it all, he says, I can’t call my soul my own! But he gets broken in. It’s all discipline.” Luke "

― Agatha Christie , Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle, #4)

14 " I shall have to adopt a disguise,' said Luke with a sudden grin. 'What do you suggest? Artist? Hardly—I can't draw, let alone paint.'
'You could be a modern artist,' suggested Jimmy, 'Then that wouldn't matter. "

― Agatha Christie , Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle, #4)

15 " liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else. "

― Agatha Christie , Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle, #4)

16 " L'altura di Ashe Ridge incombeva, opprimente e minacciosa, e un'improvvisa folata di vento scosse con violenza i rami degli alberi. In quell'istante, da dietro l'angolo della casa, comparve una ragazza.
Coi capelli neri scompigliati dal vento, ricordò a Luke il quadro di Nevinson intitolato "La strega". Quel viso pallido, delicato, quei capelli così lunghi che parevano arrivare fino alle stelle... se la immaginò a cavallo di un manico di scopa che voleva verso la luna. "

― Agatha Christie , Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle, #4)