Agatha Christie: Frasi in inglese (pagina 2)

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“One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.”

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Agatha Christie And Then There Were None

Origine: And Then There Were None

“The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.”

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Agatha Christie libro La parola alla difesa

Origine: Sad Cypress

“One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.”

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Agatha Christie libro A Murder Is Announced

Origine: A Murder Is Announced

“Conversations are always dangerous, if you have something to hide.”

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Agatha Christie libro A Caribbean Mystery

Origine: A Caribbean Mystery

“Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot”

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Agatha Christie libro Death in the Clouds

Origine: Death in the Clouds

“It really is very dangerous to believe people. I never have for years.”

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Agatha Christie libro Sleeping Murder

Sleeping Murder (1976)

“The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.”

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Agatha Christie libro Poirot a Styles Court

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)

“I’m used to that. It often seems to me that’s all detective work is — wiping out your false starts and beginning again.”

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Agatha Christie libro Death on the Nile

Death on the Nile (1937)

“"Nothing", I said sadly. "They are two delightful women!" "And neither of them is for you?" finished Poirot. "Never mind. Console yourself, my friend. We may hunt together again, who knows?"”

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Agatha Christie libro Poirot a Styles Court

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)

“It was abominable — wicked. The good God should not allow such things. We are not so wicked as that in Germany.”

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Agatha Christie libro Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

“Children and one’s social inferiors never know when to say good-bye. One has to say it for them.”

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Agatha Christie libro The Burden

The Burden (1956)

“It is the misfortune of small, precise men always to hanker after large and flamboyant women.”

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Agatha Christie libro The Labours of Hercules

The Labours of Hercules (1967)

“One has occasionally to pocket one’s pride and readjust one’s ideas.”

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Agatha Christie libro Death in the Clouds

Death in the Clouds (1935)

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.”

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Origine: An Autobiography

“Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking."
"An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.”

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Agatha Christie libro Peril at End House

Origine: Peril at End House

“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”

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Agatha Christie libro The Hound of Death

Origine: The Hound of Death

“An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”

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Christie denied having made this remark, which had been attributed to her by her second husband Sir Max Mallowan in a news report (9 March 1954); according to Nigel Dennis, "Genteel Queen of Crime: Agatha Christie Puts Her Zest for Life Into Murder", Life, Volume 40, N° 20, 14 May 1956 http://books.google.com/books?id=p0wEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA102, she was quoting "a witty wife"; Quote Investigator reports on "An Archaeologist Is the Best Husband a Woman Can Have" as of uncertain origin. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/12/husband/
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Variante: An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

“If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”

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“Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.”

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Agatha Christie libro Poirot a Styles Court

Origine: The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“In a state of emergency martial law is proclaimed.”

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Curtain - Poirot's Last Case (1975)
Contesto: I have no more now to say. I do not know, Hastings, if what I have done is justified or not justified. No — I do not know. I do not believe that a man should take the law into his own hands... But on the other hand, I am the law! As a young man in the Belgian police force I shot down a desperate criminal who sat on a roof and fired at people below. In a state of emergency martial law is proclaimed.