Ruchi Pratap

“One can press a man as far as one likes—but with a woman one must not press too far. For a woman has at heart a great desire to speak the truth. How many husbands who have deceived their wives go comfortably to their graves, carrying their secret with them! How many wives who have deceived their husbands wreck their lives by throwing the fact in those same husbands’ teeth! They have been pressed too far. In a reckless moment (which they will afterwards regret, bien entendu) they fling safety to the winds and turn at bay, proclaiming the truth with great momentary satisfaction to themselves.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

“Fortunately words, ingeniously used, will serve to mask the ugliness of naked facts.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

“The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs; A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings!”
― Emily Dickinson, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete

“If one man does not make a move, the other must, and by permitting the adversary to make the attack one learns something about him.”
― Agatha Christie, The Big Four