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Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #19) QUOTES

Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #19) QUOTES

1 " When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so. "

― Agatha Christie , Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #19)

2 " Why harrow oneself by looking on the worst side?... Because it is sometimes necessary. "

― Agatha Christie , Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #19)

3 " A little difficult to know where you were with Elinor. She didn't reveal much of what she thought and felt about things. He liked that about her. He hated people who reeled off their thoughts and feelings to you, who took it for granted that you wanted to know all their mechanism. Reserve was always more interesting. "

― Agatha Christie , Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #19)

4 " To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived.. "

― Agatha Christie , Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #19)

5 " Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot] "

― Agatha Christie , Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #19)

6 " The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask. "

― Agatha Christie , Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #19)

7 " The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One does not live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dead,' don’t want to die! People who apparently have got everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they have not got the energy to fight. "

― Agatha Christie , Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #19)

8 " I find most of the human race extraordinarily repulsive. They probably reciprocate this feeling. "

― Agatha Christie , Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #19)

9 " You weren't quite accurate just now."
"I? Not accurate?" Poirot sounded affronted. "

― Agatha Christie , Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #19)

10 " .... she was like a flower.
And suddenly, for a vivid minute, Hercule Poirot had a new conception of
the dead girl. In that halting rustic voice the girl Mary lived and bloomed
again. "She was like a flower."
There was suddenly a poignant sense of loss, of something exquisite
destroyed. In his mind phrase after phrase succeeded each other. Peter
Lord's "She was a nice kid." Nurse Hopkins's "She could have gone on the
films any time." Mrs. Bishop's venomous "No patience with her airs and
graces." And now last, putting to shame, laying aside those other views,
the quiet, wondering, "She was like a flower. "

― Agatha Christie , Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #19)

11 " Everything costs so much—clothes and one’s face—and just silly things like cinemas and cocktails—and even gramophone records!’ Roddy "

― Agatha Christie , Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #19)

12 " المغزى هو أن لدى المرء غريزة للعيش. لا يعيش المرء لأن عقله وافق على الحياة. إن من نقول عنهم:"إن من الأفضل لهم أن يموتوا" لا يريدون الموت،وأولئك الذين يمتلكون-ظاهرياً-كل ما يمكن أن يُعاش لأجله نراهم يتركون أنفسهم يذبلون حتى الموت لأنهم يفتقرون إلى طاقة الكفاح والمقاومة. "

― Agatha Christie , Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #19)

13 " A volte si apre un abisso fra il passato e il futuro. Quando una persona si è incamminata nella valle all'ombra della morte, e ne torna fuori alla luce del sole...è allora, mon cher, che comincia una nuova vita. Il passato non serve più. "

― Agatha Christie , Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #19)

14 " Un pò difficile capire come stavano le cose quando c'era di mezzo Elinor. In realtà non rivelava mai molto di ciò che pensava o sentiva. E questo gli piaceva in lei. Perché detestava le persone che vuotavano il sacco, e rivelavano subito le proprie opinioni o manifestavano i propri sentimenti...le persone che davano praticamente per scontato che l'interlocutore desiderasse sapere com'era articolato il loro meccanismo interiore. Il riserbo era sempre stato più interessante. "

― Agatha Christie , Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #19)

15 " It is not for me to run here and there, doing amateurishly the things that for a small sum someone else can do with professional skill. "

― Agatha Christie , Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #19)

16 " When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. "

― Agatha Christie , Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #19)

17 " Life, [...], whatever else it is, is not reasonable. "

― Agatha Christie , Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #19)

18 " بغضّ النظر عن الطرف الذى يقف فيه المرء فإن عليه مواجهة الحقائق! "

― Agatha Christie , Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #19)

19 " Not that Seddon gives me much confidence. He’s so confoundedly gloomy.’ ‘It is a habit, that, of lawyers. "

― Agatha Christie , Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #19)

20 " His mind usually did shy away from any concrete unpleasantness. "

― Agatha Christie , Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #19)