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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 82a629c | I think you are wise. You haven't got what it takes for this job. You are like Rosemary's father. He couldn't understand Lenin's dictum: 'Away with softness.'" I thought of Hercule Poirot's words. "I'm content," I said, "to be human...." We sat there in silence, each of use convinced that the other's point of view was wrong." | disagreement human lenin | Agatha Christie | |
| 20c4dd0 | It seems odd that as far as I know nobody has yet been murdered for having too perfect a character! And yet perfection is undoubtedly an irritating thing! | murder perfection | Agatha Christie | |
| 0ef2f0f | those who have listened do not find it easy to talk; they keep their sorrows and joys to themselves and tell no one. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 696e8e1 | I enrage myself with an imbecile. I say, 'I would like to kick him.' Instead I kick the table. I say, 'This table, it is the imbecile, I kick him so. | hercule-poirot humor | Agatha Christie | |
| 1bc8254 | Sometimes one sees things clearly years afterwards than one could possibly at the time. | life time-lapse | Agatha Christie | |
| 3a3af62 | Will you pour out tea, Miss Brent?' The elder woman replied: 'No, you do it, dear. That tea- pot is so heavy. And I have lost two skeins of my grey knitting- wool. So annoying.' Vera moved to the tea- table. There was a cheerful rattle and clink of china. Normality returned. Tea! Blessed ordinary everyday afternoon tea! Philip Lombard made a cheery remark. Blore responded. Dr. Armstrong told a humorous story. Mr. Justice Wargrave, who ordin.. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 0de8e41 | And suddenly one of those moments of intense happiness came to her--a sense of the loveliness of the world--of her own intense enjoyment of that world. | Agatha Christie | ||
| c7e25e9 | The little grey cells, my friend, the little grey cells! They told me. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 7efefdb | Got on! Got on! It's not a question of getting on. That's the wrong view altogether. The Classics aren't a ladder leading to quick success. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 8ef3815 | Poirot sighed. He said "The world is yours, the new heaven and the new earth. In your new world, my children, let there be freedom, and let there be pity. That is all I ask." | Agatha Christie | ||
| 18a2647 | Rest assured," said Hercule Poirot. "I am the best!" | five-little-pigs hercule-poirot the-best | Agatha Christie | |
| fb71d1b | Murder, you see, is an amateur crime... One feels, very often, as though these nice ordinary chaps, had been overtaken, as it were, by murder, almost accidentally. They've been in a tight place, or they've wanted something very badly, money or a woman - and they've killed to get it. The brake that operates with most of us doesn't operate with them... They continue to be aware that murder is wrong, but they do not feel it. I don't think, in .. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 4bb7abf | Sometimes what you think is an end is only a beginning. And that wouldn't do at all. | thinking | Agatha Christie | |
| 09cab4b | I've never met a murderer who wasn't vain... It's their vanity that leads to their undoing, nine times out of ten.They may be frightened of being caught, but they can't help strutting and boasting and usually they're sure they've been far too clever to be caught. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 0bac416 | Archaeologists only look at what lies beneath their feet. The sky and the heavens don't exist for them. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 221bf62 | To see ourselves as others see us! | Agatha Christie | ||
| fefc99e | l ykfy Hqq lHq bl`dl, w nm yjb 'n ykwn dhlk `l~ mr'~ mn lns | Alberto Manguel | ||
| ee246c7 | An editor doesn't just read, he reads , and reading well is a creative, powerful act. The ancients knew this and it frightened them. Mesopotamian society, for instance, did not want great reading from its scribes, only great writing. Scribes had to submit to a curious ruse: they had to downplay their reading skills lest they antagonize their employer. The Attic poet Menander wrote: "those who can read see twice as well." Ancient autocrats .. | editing freedom-of-thought reading revision thought writers writing | Susan Bell | |
| 3a70a56 | Over the years, my experience, my tastes, my prejudices have changed: as the days go by, my memory keeps reshelving, cataloguing, discarding the volumes in my library, my words and my world - except for a few constant landmarks - are never one and the same. Heraclitus's bon mot about time applies equally well to my reading: "You never dip into the same book twice." | Alberto Manguel | ||
| a813847 | We can live in a society founded on the book and yet not read, or we can live in a society where the book is merely an accessory and be, in the deepest, truest sense, a reader. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 08275af | The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself. | library world | Alberto Manguel | |
| 9afc981 | Wounds are said to emit light under certain conditions - touch them and the brightness will stay on the hands - and as candles burn Rohan thinks of each flame as an injury somewhere in his house. | Nadeem Aslam | ||
| bd33715 | Mensen hebben warmte nodig. Daarop leven ze. Daarvan leven ze. Die warmte is geen misdaad. Het gebrek eraan is de misdaad. | Arnon Grunberg | ||
| 6dc1773 | What do you want to do with me?" she asked. You had an unpleasant tumble." He nodded toward the unfamiliar creatures. "My Ganmede friends and I are nursing you back to health, that's all." By drugging me?" (Molly and Arch)" | Frank Beddor | ||
| 6253753 | THe Gnobi, when not roused to violence, were a sluggish clan, the least nomadic of Boarderland's tribes. Not sensing any immediate threat to their freedoms in the person of Jack Diamond, they had responded to his urgency with characteristic listessness. | Frank Beddor | ||
| 81ff749 | If wearing this rag will in any way speed the process of gathering my furture soldiers, then I will waer it. But if it doesn't..." Vollrath bowed. "I will subject myself to your temper." You'll have no choice." | Frank Beddor | ||
| 14e0353 | Dead and still in the world was worse than dead and in the ground. Dead in the ground at least gave you the hope of heaven. | heaven inspirational | Ron Rash | |
| 3941fc2 | Water has its own archaeology, not a layering but a leveling, and thus is truer to our sense of the past, because what is memory but near and far events spread and smoothed beneath the present's surface. | Ron Rash | ||
| aeafea5 | We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times was till I left, but I guess that's the way of it | fun happiness life schooling | Ron Rash | |
| 58516ef | Someone has described religious warfare as "killing people over who has the best invisible friend." | Bobby Henderson | ||
| 2132540 | If somebody wants to be your enemy, there's only one thing you can do. You give them exactly what they want. It confuses them and makes them wonder what you're up to. | David Wellington | ||
| 6ba98af | You could tell those two had been married by the way that she ignored him. | Lindsey Davis | ||
| c154929 | On Lee as commander: "He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to court their favor." | american-civil-war-biography confederate-army confederate-states-of-america dignity encouragement leadership robert-e-lee | Shelby Foote | |
| 2ae28a3 | A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive. The president spun a story about a machine that baffled a chess champion by beating him thrice. The stunned champ cried while inspecting the machine, "There's a man in there!"Lincoln's good news, he confided from the heights of leadership, was that there was in fact a man in there." | abraham-lincoln-quotes american-civil-war compassion fallibility humility leadership | Shelby Foote | |
| 956b950 | all this pain. all this crying. it wasn't that she hadn't expected it. she just underestimated it. it felt like a heavy, dark blanket that had been pulled across all of them. she hadn't know that it would make it difficult to breathe. she hadn't guess that it would seem so enveloping. and so total, and so permanent. | Elizabeth Noble | ||
| 27d7cfa | You've got the wrong criteria." Huh?" You need to make more intellectual decisions, fewer emotional ones..." 'Decisions' came out a bit slurred. What the hell are you talking about?" You need to go for someone who won't let you down." How are you supposed to know if someone's going to let you down or not?" | Elizabeth Noble | ||
| 3641139 | It couldn't last of course. They both knew it. Not the evening, Not the holiday. | Elizabeth Noble | ||
| f81a37a | mum's dress. mum loved big parties. she loved dressing up and champagne bubbles tickling her nose, and dancing with her arms above her head, shoes thrown to the edges of the dance floor, and shouting inane happy things at people. | Elizabeth Noble | ||
| 7ecea8c | amanda thought about her addiction to being on the move. about whether she was running away or running toward. | Elizabeth Noble | ||
| 15169f3 | and there you go - i was alone, without love, for eight years. and it took me about twenty minutes - over a cappuchino and an egg salad sandwich - to fall in love with him. | Elizabeth Noble | ||
| a427a30 | i just want my girls to have babies. that's all. so they know what i know. | Elizabeth Noble | ||
| dbc757a | As far as one knows of heroines from history. I'm capable of a great jerk, an effort, and then a relaxation--but steady every-day goodness is beyond me. I must be a moral kangaroo! | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 971a821 | It is right to hope for the best about everybody, and not to expect the worst. This sounds like a truism, but it has comforted me before now, and some day you'll find it useful. One has always to try to think more of others than of oneself, and it is best not to prejudge people on the bad side. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 2ea9360 | I dare say, my remark came from the professional feeling of there being nothing like leather. | Elizabeth Gaskell |