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The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #30) QUOTES

The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #30) QUOTES

1 " To every problem, there is a most simple solution. "

― Agatha Christie , The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #30)

2 " It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down. "

― Agatha Christie , The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #30)

3 " What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions. "

― Agatha Christie , The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #30)

4 " I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there. "

― Agatha Christie , The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #30)

5 " Edna restored the toffee to the centre of her tongue and sucking pleasurably, resumed her typing of Naked Love by Armand Levine. Its painstaking eroticism left her uninterested--as indeed it did most of Mr. Levine's readers, in spite of his efforts. He was a notable example of the fact that nothing can be duller than dull pornography. "

― Agatha Christie , The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #30)

6 " One gets infected, it is true, by the style of a work that one has been reading. "

― Agatha Christie , The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #30)

7 " Inside, it was clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down. "

― Agatha Christie , The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #30)

8 " Me and my old man went on a coach trip to Switzerland and Italy once and it was a whole hour further on there. Must be something to do with this Common Market. I don't hold with the Common Market and nor does Mr. Curtain. England's good enough for me. "

― Agatha Christie , The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #30)

9 " I think you are wise. You haven't got what it takes for this job. You are like Rosemary's father. He couldn't understand Lenin's dictum: 'Away with softness.'"
I thought of Hercule Poirot's words.
"I'm content," I said, "to be human...."
We sat there in silence, each of use convinced that the other's point of view was wrong. "

― Agatha Christie , The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #30)

10 " He’s not dead. But I have a feeling he’s bored. That’s worse. "

― Agatha Christie , The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #30)

11 " Inspector Hardcastle walked in manfully. Unfortunately for him he was one of those men who have cat allergy. As usually happens on these occasions all the cats immediately made for him. One jumped on his knee, another rubbed affectionately against his trousers. Detective Inspector Hardcastle, who was a brave man, set his lips and endured. "

― Agatha Christie , The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #30)

12 " ... but the unlikely happened more often than one would be disposed to believe. "

― Agatha Christie , The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #30)

13 " Always going off somewhere. Dams, you know. I’m not swearing, my dear,” he assured his wife. “I mean jobs to do with the building of dams, or else it’s oil or pipelines or something like that. "

― Agatha Christie , The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #30)

14 " He’s got a wife,” I said. “Quite a nice wife, and two obstreperous children—boys. "

― Agatha Christie , The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #30)

15 " What are all these people, by the way?” “They’re people whose gardens verge on or touch the garden of the house where the murder was committed.” “Sounds like a French exercise,” said Beck. “Where is the dead body of my uncle? In the garden of the cousin of my aunt. What about Number 19 itself?” “A blind woman, a former school teacher, lives there. She works in an institute for the blind and she’s been thoroughly investigated by the local police. "

― Agatha Christie , The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #30)

16 " The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,” he murmured lovingly, and even uttered reverently the one word, “Maître!” “Sherlock Holmes?” I asked. “Ah, non, non, not Sherlock Holmes! It is the author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, that I salute. These tales of Sherlock Holmes are in reality farfetched, full of fallacies and most artificially contrived. But the art of the writing—ah, that is entirely different. The pleasure of the language, the creation above all of that magnificent character, Dr. Watson. Ah, that was indeed a triumph. "

― Agatha Christie , The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #30)

17 " I have read also," he said, "some of the early works of Mrs.Ariadne Oliver. She is by way of being a friend of mine,and of yours, I think. I do not wholly approve of her works, mind you. The happenings in them are highly improbable. The long arm of coincidence is far too freely employed. And being young at the time, she was foolish enough to make her detective a Finn, and it is clear that she knows nothing about Finns or Finland except possibly the works of Sibelius. "

― Agatha Christie , The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #30)

18 " -'Why must it be simple?'
' Because it appears so complex. If it has necessarily to appear complex, it must be simple. You comprehend that? "

― Agatha Christie , The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #30)

19 " It was necessary to sidle since precariously arranged books impinged more and more every day on the passageway from the street. Inside, it was clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down. The distance between bookshelves was so narrow that you could only get along with great difficulty. There were piles of books perched on every shelf or table. On a stool in a corner, hemmed in by books, was an old man in a pork-pie hat with a large flat face like a stuffed fish. "

― Agatha Christie , The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #30)

20 " there was a girl who discovered the body.” “What did she do when she discovered it?” “Screamed.” “Very nice too, "

― Agatha Christie , The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #30)