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Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #10) QUOTES

Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #10) QUOTES

1 " One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late. "

― Agatha Christie , Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #10)

2 " It seems dreadful to say so, but there is something attractive to a girl in being told anyone is a bad man. She thinks at once that her love will reform him. "

― Agatha Christie , Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #10)

3 " Charles doesn’t go out of a room—he ‘makes an exit’— "

― Agatha Christie , Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #10)

4 " It's the Only Thing To Do," he said, obviously speaking in capital letters. "

― Agatha Christie , Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #10)

5 " Las mujeres no acostumbran a ser crueles con los hombres, a menos de que se trate de uno en particular; solo lo somos con las mujeres. "

― Agatha Christie , Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #10)

6 " Een van de voordelen als je dokter bent, is dat je je eigen raad niet hoeft op te volgen,' zei Sir Bartholomew. "

― Agatha Christie , Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #10)

7 " And let me tell you something, mademoiselle – in the course of my experience I have known five cases of wives murdered by devoted husbands, and twenty-two of husbands murdered by devoted wives. Les femmes, they obviously keep up appearances better. "

― Agatha Christie , Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #10)

8 " Mr. Satterthwaite looked cheered.

Suddenly an idea struck him. His jaw fell.

"My goodness," he cried, "I've only just realized it! That rascal, with his poisoned cocktail! Anyone might have drunk it! It might have been me!"

"There is an even more terrible possibility that you have not considered," said Poirot.

"Eh?"

"It might have been me," said Hercule Poirot. "

― Agatha Christie , Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #10)

9 " In all the world there is nothing so curious and so interesting and so beautiful as truth. "

― Agatha Christie , Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #10)

10 " The great merit of being a doctor,” said Sir Bartholomew, “is that you are not obliged to follow your own advice. "

― Agatha Christie , Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #10)

11 " But yes, exactly that. Think! With thought, all problems can be solved. "

― Agatha Christie , Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #10)

12 " Events come to people, not people to events. Why do some people have exciting lives and other people dull ones? Because of their surroundings? Not at all. One man may travel to the ends of the earth and nothing will happen to him. There will be a massacre a week before he arrives, and an earthquake the day after he leaves, and the boat that he nearly took will be shipwrecked. And another man may live at Balham and travel to the City every day, and things will happen to him. He will be mixed up with blackmailing gangs and beautiful girls and motor bandits. There are people with a tendency to shipwrecks--even if they go on a boat on an ornamental lake, something will happen to it. "

― Agatha Christie , Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #10)

13 " I was such a foolish girl - girls are foolish, Mr. Satterthwaite. They are so sure of themselves, so convinced they know best. People write and talk a lot of a ‘woman’s instinct.’ I don’t believe, Mr.Satterthwaite, that there is any such thing. There doesn’t seem to be anything that warns girls against a certain type of man. Nothing in themselves, I mean. Their parents warn them, but that’s no good - one doesn’t believe. It seems dreadful to say so, but there is something attractive to a girl in being told anyone is a bad man. She thinks at once that her love will reform him. "

― Agatha Christie , Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #10)

14 " ...we all have an exaggerated idea of our own personalities and don't recognize the truth if it's sufficiently brutally portrayed... "

― Agatha Christie , Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #10)

15 " Eve. The Lee family reunion, never a lively affair, is interrupted "

― Agatha Christie , Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #10)

16 " In all the world there is nothing so curious and so interesting and so beautiful as truth…. "

― Agatha Christie , Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #10)

17 " In the heart of the desert or in the heart of a crowd—what does it matter? The inmost core of man is solitary—alone. I have always been —a lonely soul.... "

― Agatha Christie , Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #10)

18 " Een man die zichzelf voortdurend dramatiseert, wordt wel eens verkeerd beoordeeld,' stelde Satterthwaite vast. 'Je neemt de dingen die echt in hem zijn ook niet meer au sérieux. "

― Agatha Christie , Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #10)

19 " Of more than twice her years, Seam’d with an ancient swordcut on the cheek, And bruised and bronzed, she lifted up her eyes And loved him, with that love which was her doom. "

― Agatha Christie , Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #10)

20 " That kind of woman never had a mother at all. Spontaneously generated from a dynamo. "

― Agatha Christie , Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #10)