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The Monogram Murders (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #1) QUOTES

The Monogram Murders (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #1) QUOTES

1 " One cannot do such harm to another and not wound one’s own soul in the process. "

― Sophie Hannah , The Monogram Murders (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #1)

2 " Tell them I've two spare rooms here. It might not be as grand as the Bloxham, but everybody's still alive when they wake up in the morning. "

― Sophie Hannah , The Monogram Murders (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #1)

3 " we cannot help how we feel, but we can choose whether or not to act upon those feelings. "

― Sophie Hannah , The Monogram Murders (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #1)

4 " It is the job of art to replace unhappy true stories with happier inventions. "

― Sophie Hannah , The Monogram Murders (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #1)

5 " I thought to myself that a conversation was a strange thing that could take you almost anywhere. Often you were left stranded miles from where you had started, with no idea about how to get back. "

― Sophie Hannah , The Monogram Murders (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #1)

6 " If something is in a person’s head, then it is real,” Poirot said. "

― Sophie Hannah , The Monogram Murders (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #1)

7 " Seems to me there’s not much time to read about other people’s lives and live your own while you’re at it. If I have to choose, and I reckon I do, I’ll choose living my own life over reading summat about someone else’s. "

― Sophie Hannah , The Monogram Murders (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #1)

8 " I will be angry until my dying day, Mr Catchpool. Greater sinners persecuting lesser sinners in the name of morality—that’s something worth raging about. "

― Sophie Hannah , The Monogram Murders (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #1)

9 " In my opinion, a superior mind counts for nothing unless accompanied by a superior heart. "

― Sophie Hannah , The Monogram Murders (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #1)

10 " The Bible, with all its rules, is simply a book written by a person or people. It ought to carry a disclaimer, prominently displayed: 'The word of God, distorted and misrepresented by man. "

― Sophie Hannah , The Monogram Murders (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #1)

11 " It is hate that makes people kill, Mr Catchpool, not love. Never love. Please be rational. "

― Sophie Hannah , The Monogram Murders (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #1)

12 " I’m not convinced that stories from real life have beginnings and ends, as a matter of fact. Approach them from any vantage point and you’ll see that they stretch endlessly back into the past and spread inexorably forward into the future. One is never quite able to say “That’s that, then,” and draw a line. "

― Sophie Hannah , The Monogram Murders (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #1)

13 " Alas, the human mind is a perverse, uncontrollable organ, "

― Sophie Hannah , The Monogram Murders (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #1)

14 " Poirot smoothed his mustache, as if he imagined that laughing might have shaken it out of shape. "

― Sophie Hannah , The Monogram Murders (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #1)

15 " Different people regard rules differently, no matter what those rules happen to be. Mutinous characters like me always resent constraints, even perfectly sensible ones, but there are some who welcome their existence and enforcement because it makes them feel safer. Protected. "

― Sophie Hannah , The Monogram Murders (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #1)

16 " Una rutina diaria invariable es esencial para una mente sosegada, "

― Sophie Hannah , The Monogram Murders (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #1)

17 " A loose tile; Poirot could not sleep in a room with such a thing. "

― Sophie Hannah , The Monogram Murders (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #1)

18 " Sometimes a gentle perambulation causes a new idea to rise to the surface of one’s thoughts. "

― Sophie Hannah , The Monogram Murders (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #1)

19 " There comes a point in most cases—and by no means only those in which Hercule Poirot has involved himself—when one starts to feel that it would be a greater comfort, and actually no less effective, to talk only to oneself and dispense with all attempts to communicate with the outside world. "

― Sophie Hannah , The Monogram Murders (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #1)

20 " It would not have done Poirot any good whatever to state that his wishes were the precise opposite of hers in this respect. Nothing fascinated him more than the private passions of strangers he would probably never meet again. "

― Sophie Hannah , The Monogram Murders (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #1)