They Do It With Mirrors Quotes

“People who can be very good can be very bad too.”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“That's the secret of existence. We're all a little mad.”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“Poison has a certain appeal … It has not the crudeness of the revolver bullet or the blunt weapon.”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“People will quite often do anything for money. - Jane Marple”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“We’re all mad, dear lady,” he said as he ushered her in through the door. “That’s the secret of existence. We’re all a little mad.”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“Toată lumea se așteaptă ca educația să fie un drept fundamental și nu pun mare preț pe ea când o primesc!”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“I mean—but the English are rather odd that way. Even in war, so much prouder of their defeats and their retreats than of their victories. Foreigners never can understand why we’re so proud of Dunkerque. It’s the sort of thing they’d prefer not to mention themselves. But we always seem to be almost embarrassed by a victory—and treat it as though it weren’t quite nice to boast about it. And look at all our poets! ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade.’ And the little Revenge went down in the Spanish Main. It’s really a very odd characteristic when you come to think of it!”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“She looked, Inspector Curry reflected, exactly as the relict of a canon of the Established Church should look—which was almost odd, because so few people ever did look like what they really were. Even the tight line of her lips had an ascetic ecclesiastical flavour. She expressed Christian Endurance, and possibly Christian Fortitude. But not, Curry thought, Christian Charity.”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“In spite of all my aches and pains, and I've got plenty. Inside I go on feeling just a chit like Gina. Perhaps everyone does. The glass shows them how old they are and they just don't believe it. It seems only a few months ago that we were at Florence. Do you remember Fräulein Schweich and her boots?”

The two elderly women laughed together at events that had happened nearly half a century ago.”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“Every woman should make one mistake matrimonially. - Alex Restarick”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“She looked, Inspector Curry reflected, exactly as the relict of a canon of the Established Church should look—which was almost odd, because so few people ever did look like what they really were.

Even the tight line of her lips had an ascetic ecclesiastical flavour. She expressed Christian Endurance, and possibly Christian Fortitude. But not, Curry thought, Christian Charity.”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“You can't really spare anyone anything,' she said. 'Things always have to be faced sooner or later. And therefore it had better be sooner. ”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“It doesn’t last very long, you know. Women have a much worse time of it in the world than men do. They’re more vulnerable. They have children, and they mind—terribly—about their children. As soon as they lose their looks, the men they love don’t love them anymore. They’re betrayed and deserted and pushed aside. I don’t blame men. I’d be the same myself. I don’t like people who are old or ugly or ill, or who whine about their troubles, or who are ridiculous like Edgar, strutting about and pretending he’s important and worthwhile. You say I’m cruel? It’s a cruel world! Sooner or later it will be cruel to me! But now I’m young and I’m nice looking and people find me attractive.” Her teeth flashed out in her peculiar, warm sunny smile. “Yes, I enjoy it, Alex. Why shouldn’t I?”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“[...] Quando si vive nello stesso paese, uno non sente il bisogno di programmare incontri con i vecchi amici: prima o poi è convinto che li incontrerà. Questo però, se ci si muove in sfere diverse, non accade mai.”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“Odd, but quite natural, because when one lives in the same country there is no need to arrange meetings with old friends. One assumes that, sooner or later, one will see them without contrivance. Only, if you move in different spheres, that does not happen.”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“She expressed Christian Endurance, and possibly Christian Fortitude. But not, Curry thought, Christian Charity.”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“On the whole it was rather an exhausting day. Enthusiasm in itself can be extremely wearing,”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“To youth it seems very odd to think that age was once young and pigtailed and struggled with decimals and English literature.”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“His eyes now were bright and beady with pleasurable anticipation.”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“She greeted him, asked him to sit down, and took a chair near him. It was less he who put her at her ease than she who put him at his.”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“Into the Gothic gloom of the library, Gina brought an exotic glow.”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“She looked, Inspector Curry reflected, exactly as the relict of a canon of the Established Church should look—which was almost odd, because so few people ever did look like what they really were.
Even the tight line of her lips had an ascetic ecclesiastical flavour. She expressed Christian Endurance, and possibly Christian Fortitude. But not, Curry thought, Christian Charity.”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“Her eyes were shining, and her long thin mouth was curved in a triumphant smile.”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“He seemed a very ordinary young man, very much cast down and in a state of humility approaching that of Uriah Heep’s.”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“You can”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“She’s half Italian, you know, and the Italians have that unconscious vein of cruelty. They’ve no compassion for anyone who’s old or ugly, or peculiar in any way.”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“Of course, it was the fashion when we were young to have ideals—we all had them, it was the proper thing for young girls. You were going to nurse lepers, Jane, and I was going to be a nun. One gets over all that nonsense. Marriage, I suppose one might say, knocks it out of one.”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“mean—but the English are rather odd that way. Even in war, so much prouder of their defeats and their retreats than of their victories. Foreigners never can understand why we’re so proud of Dunkerque. It’s the sort of thing they’d prefer not to mention themselves. But we always seem to be almost embarrassed by a victory—and treat it as though it weren’t quite nice to boast about it. And look at all our poets! ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade.’ And the little Revenge went down in the Spanish Main. It’s really a very odd characteristic when you come to think of it!”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“We’re all mad, dear lady,’ he said as he ushered her in through the door. ‘That’s the secret of existence. We’re all a little mad.”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors

“Chi è molto buono con gli altri sa anche essere molto crudele.”
― Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors