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Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #34) QUOTES

Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #34) QUOTES

1 " I was tired of this silly joking about my 'speaking countenance'. I could keep a secret as well as anyone. Poirot had always persisted in the humiliating belief that I am a transparent character and that anyone can read what is passing in my mind. "

― Agatha Christie , Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #34)

2 " I will not look through keyholes,” I interrupted hotly. Poirot closed his eyes. “Very well, then. You will not look through keyholes. You will remain the English gentleman and someone will be killed. "

― Agatha Christie , Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #34)

3 " Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill-though not the will to kill. "

― Agatha Christie , Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #34)

4 " I don't want to write about it at all.
I want, you see, to think about it as little as possible. Hercule Poirot was dead - and with him died a good part of Arthur Hastings. "

― Agatha Christie , Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #34)

5 " Underneath the quarrels,the misunderstandings, the apparent hostility of everyday life, a real and true affection can exist. Married life, I mused, as I went to bed,
was a curious thing. "

― Agatha Christie , Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #34)

6 " Nothing is so sad, in my opinion, as the devastation wrought by age.
My poor friend. I have described him many times. Now to convey to you the difference. Crippled with arthritis, he propelled himself about in a wheelchair. His once plump frame had fallen in. He was a thin little man now. His face was lined and wrinkled. His moustache and hair, and hair, it is true, were still of a jet black colour, but candidly, though I would not for the world have hurt his feelings by saying so to him, this was a mistake. There comes a moment when hair dye is only too painfully obvious. There had been a time when I had been surprised to learn that the blackness of Poirot's hair came out of a bottle. But now the theatricality was apparent and merely created the impression that he wore a wig and had adorned his upper lip to amuse children! "

― Agatha Christie , Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #34)

7 " That’s the depressing part of places like this. Guest houses run by broken-down gentlepeople. They’re full of failures—of people who have never got anywhere and never will get anywhere, of people who—who have been defeated and broken by life, of people who are old and tired and finished. "

― Agatha Christie , Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #34)

8 " Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what the fairies will send you— "

― Agatha Christie , Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #34)

9 " Curious, sometimes, how one’s thoughts seemed to swing in a kaleidoscope. It happened to me now. A bewildering shuffling and reshuffling of memories, of events. Then the mosaic settled into its true pattern. "

― Agatha Christie , Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #34)

10 " The darkest day, lived till tomorrow, will have passed away? "

― Agatha Christie , Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #34)

11 " Your daughter's a very enthusiastic scientific worker.”

“I know,” I said rather disconsolately. “It worries me sometimes. It doesn't seem natural, if you know what I mean. I feel she ought to be - more human - more keen on having a good time. Amuse herself - fall in love with a nice boy or two. After all, youth is the time to have one's fling - not to sit poring over test tubes. It isn't natural. In our young days we were having fun - flirting - enjoying ourselves - you know. "

― Agatha Christie , Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #34)

12 " شعور رمادية وقلوب رمادية واحلام رمادية! "

― Agatha Christie , Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #34)

13 " És végül a pisztolylövés. Az egyetlen hibám. Halántékon is lőhettem volna. De képtelen voltam rászánni magam, hogy ilyen aszimmetrikus, hebehurgya munkát végezzek. Nem, legyen szimmetrikus a lövés, pontosan a homloka közepébe... "

― Agatha Christie , Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #34)

14 " Poirot nodded. “Exactly. That is often the case, remember. Underneath the quarrels, the misunderstandings, the apparent hostility of everyday life, a real and true affection can exist. "

― Agatha Christie , Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #34)

15 " The delicate exotic flower has to have the shelter of the greenhouse—it cannot endure the cold winds. It is the common weed that thrives in the wintry air—but it is not to be prized higher on that account. "

― Agatha Christie , Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #34)