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1 " Who was there to guard youth from pain and death - youth who could not, who had never been able to, guard itself? Did they know too little? Or was it that they knew too much, and therefore thought they knew it all? "
― Agatha Christie , Nemesis
2 " I know when a couple are really in love with each other. And by that I do not mean just sexually attracted. There is too much talk about sex, too much attention is paid to it. I do not mean that anything about sex is wrong. That is nonsense. But sex cannot take the place of love, it goes with love, but cannot succeed by itself. "
3 " Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence. "
4 " Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband. "
5 " Accuracy is more a male quality than a female one. - Jane Marple "
6 " I really cannot understand the point of what you're saying. Really,' said Clotilde, looking at her. 'What a very extraordinary person you are. What sort of a woman are you? Why are you talking like this? Who are you?'Miss Marple pulled down the mass of pink wool that encircled her head, a pink wool scarf of the same kind that she had once worn in the West Indies.'One of my names,' she said, 'is Nemesis.''Nemesis? And what does that mean?''I think you know,' said Miss Marple. 'You are a very well educated woman. Nemesis is long delayed sometimes, but it comes in the end. "
7 " Clotilde, Miss Marple thought, was certainly no Ophelia, but she would have made a magnificent Clytemnestra---she could have stabbed a husband in his bath with exultation. But since she had never had a husband, that solution wouldn’t do. Miss Marple could not see her murdering anyone else but a husband---and there had been no Agamemnon in this house. "
8 " The only thing I shall want for a rainy day will be my umbrella. "
9 " It has just happened that I have found myself in the vicinity of murder rather more often than would seem normal. "
10 " One does not like to make definite assertions unless one has a little more definite knowledge. "
11 " Ah, I see you are an actress, Miss Marple, as well as an avenger. "
12 " You could ask your bank manager’s advice, you know, Miss Marple. It really is- one never knows when one wants something for a rainy day.’ ‘The only thing I shall want for a rainy day will be my umbrella,’ said Miss Marple. "
13 " Miss Marple queried the word sharply. ‘Love?’ ‘One of the most frightening words there is in the world,’ said Elizabeth Temple. "
14 " She considered herself with proper humility. She was inquisitive, she asked questions, she was the sort of age and type that could be expected to ask questions. That was one point, a possible point. You could send a private detective round to ask questions, or some psychological investigator, but it was true that you could much more easily send an elderly lady with a habit of snooping and being inquisitive, of talking too much, of wanting to find out about things, and it would seem perfectly natural. "
15 " [About Nora Broad}Miss Marple: Was she a girl that did well in school and all that?Mrs. Black: No she wasn't, heh... She was idle, and she wasn't too clever to books either. No, she was "all for the boys." From the time she was twelve years old, onwards. "
16 " I know he'll probably always be like it, but I love him. I may be able to help him and I may not. But I'll take that risk. "
17 " you prefer to continue knitting, that is your decision. If you prefer to serve the cause of justice, I hope that you may at least find it interesting. Let justice roll down like waters. And righteousness like an everlasting stream. Amos. "
18 " There is too much talk about sex, too much attention is paid to it. I do not mean that anything about sex is wrong. That is nonsense. But sex cannot take the place of love, it goes with love but it cannot succeed by itself. To love means the words of the marriage service. For better, for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health. That is what you take on if you love and wish to marry. "
19 " They wish not to become adult—not to have to accept our kind of responsibility. And yet like all children, they want to be thought grown up, and free to do what they think are grown up things. And that leads sometimes to tragedy and sometimes to the aftermath of tragedy. "
20 " So many things are difficult,” said Miss Marple. It was a useful phrase which she used often. "