“It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.”
― The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
― The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
“Les femmes,” generalized Poirot. “They are marvellous! They invent haphazard—and by miracle they are right. Not that it is that, really. Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing that they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together—and they call the result intuition.”
― The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
― The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
“It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.”
― The A.B.C. Murders
― The A.B.C. Murders
“A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.”
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
“Mrs. Cavendish: I am charming to my friends one day, and forget all about them the next.”
― The Mysterious Affair at Styles
― The Mysterious Affair at Styles
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