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The Moving Finger QUOTES

The Moving Finger QUOTES

1 " Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open? "

― Agatha Christie , The Moving Finger

2 " There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them. "

― Agatha Christie , The Moving Finger

3 " ... Good gracious, Jerry, you'll probably have to marry the girl.'

Joanna was half serious, half laughing.

It was at that moment that I made a very important discovery.

'Damn it all,' I said. 'I don't mind if I do. In fact - I should like it.'

A very funny expression came over Joanna's face. She got up and said dryly, as she went toward the door, 'Yes, I've known that for some time...'

She left me standing, glass in hand, aghast at my new discovery. "

― Agatha Christie , The Moving Finger

4 " A man travels fastest who travels alone. "

― Agatha Christie , The Moving Finger

5 " The great thing in these cases is to keep an absolutely open mind. Most crimes, you see, are so absurdly simple. "

― Agatha Christie , The Moving Finger

6 " Yes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an important fellow creature's life is at stake. You understand me? "

― Agatha Christie , The Moving Finger

7 " ... go down to the country, take a house, get interested in local politics, in local scandal, in village gossip. Take an inquisitive and violent interest in your neighbours. "

― Agatha Christie , The Moving Finger

8 " There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves. "

― Agatha Christie , The Moving Finger

9 " In everybody's life there are hidden chapters which they hope may never be known. "

― Agatha Christie , The Moving Finger

10 " I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts. "

― Agatha Christie , The Moving Finger

11 " We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness. "

― Agatha Christie , The Moving Finger

12 " The trouble is, that this sort of things once it starts, grows. "

― Agatha Christie , The Moving Finger

13 " With a sweeping gesture she indicated Miss Marple. Miss Marple had finished the fleecy knitting and was now engaged with a crochet hook and a ball of cotton. "That's my expert," said Mrs. Dane Calthrop. "Jane Marple. Look at her well. I tell you, that woman knows more about the different kinds of human wickedness than anyone I've ever known. "

― Agatha Christie , The Moving Finger

14 " How strange that a girl could trouble your inmost soul so long as she kept her mouth shut, and that the moment she spoke the glamour could vanish as though it had never been. "

― Agatha Christie , The Moving Finger

15 " You mean you really want to marry me?" she asked with the air of one getting a thing perfectly clear.
"More than anything in the world," I said - and I meant it.
"You mean, you're in love with me?"
"I'm in love with you."
Her eyes were steady and grave. She said:
"I think you're the nicest person in the world - but I'm not in love with you." "I'll make you love me."
"That wouldn't do. I don't want to be made. "

― Agatha Christie , The Moving Finger

16 " Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more. "

― Agatha Christie , The Moving Finger

17 " From all I have heard, geniuses are people to be heartily disliked. "

― Agatha Christie , The Moving Finger

18 " If suicide is your idea of escape from trouble then it doesn't very much matter what the trouble is. "

― Agatha Christie , The Moving Finger

19 " Things never burn when you want them to, they got out. You'd probably have had to strike match after match. "

― Agatha Christie , The Moving Finger

20 " Only cats and witches walk in the dark. "

― Agatha Christie , The Moving Finger