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

Agatha Christie And Then There Were None

Источник: And Then There Were None

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

Agatha Christie книга Sad Cypress

Источник: Sad Cypress

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

Agatha Christie книга A Murder Is Announced

Источник: A Murder Is Announced

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

Agatha Christie книга A Caribbean Mystery

Источник: A Caribbean Mystery

“Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot”

Agatha Christie книга Death in the Clouds

Источник: Death in the Clouds

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

Agatha Christie книга Sleeping Murder

Sleeping Murder (1976)

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

Agatha Christie книга The Mysterious Affair at Styles

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.”

Agatha Christie книга Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

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

Agatha Christie книга The Labours of Hercules

The Labours of Hercules (1967)

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

Agatha Christie книга Death in the Clouds

Death in the Clouds (1935)

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

Agatha Christie книга Peril at End House

Источник: Peril at End House

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

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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Вариант: An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

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

Agatha Christie книга The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Источник: The Mysterious Affair at Styles

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

Curtain - Poirot's Last Case (1975)
Контексте: 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.