Third Girl Quotes

“... people are never like what you remember them. You make them, as the years go by, more and more the way you wish them to be, and as you think you remember them. If you want to remember them as agreeable and gay and handsome, you make them far more so than they actually were.”
― Agatha Christie, Third Girl

“They have a genius, young ladies, for getting into various kinds of trouble and difficulty.”
― Agatha Christie, Third Girl

“Eh bien, then, you are crazy, or appear crazy or you think you are crazy, and possibly you may be crazy.”
― Agatha Christie, Third Girl

“Where there is murder, anything can happen.”
― Agatha Christie, Third Girl

“Is she a very clever little actress, acting a part? Or is she a genuine semi-moronic suicidal victim?”
― Agatha Christie, Third Girl

“To have known, at close quarters, what absolute evil means, is to be armoured against what life can do to you.”
― Agatha Christie, Third Girl

“Reflection had never been Mrs Oliver's strong point.”
― Agatha Christie, Third Girl

“But you know, my dear," said Poirot gently, "people are never like what you remember them. You make them as the years go by, more and more the way you wish them to be, and as you think you remember them. If you want to remember them as agreeable and gay and handsome, you make than far more so than they actually were.”
― Agatha Christie, Third Girl

“Blood in the courtyard,” said Poirot. “Really!” said Mrs. Oliver. “That’s just like the title of an old-fashioned detective story. The Stain on the Staircase. I mean nowadays you say something more like She Asked for Death.”
― Agatha Christie, Third Girl

“Mr Goby turned over another leaf of his notebook and selected his confidante: he chose an electric radiator...”
― Agatha Christie, Third Girl

“He was a small shrunken little man, so nondescript as to be practically nonexistent.”
― Agatha Christie, Third Girl

“Hate isn't creative." - Stillingfleet”
― Agatha Christie, Third Girl

“She breathed an enormous sigh, looked at Poirot, Looked away, and suddenly blurted out, "You're too old. Nobody told me you were so old. I really don't want to be rude but - there it is. You're too old. I'm really sorry." She turned abruptly and blundered out of the room, rather like a desperate moth in lamplight. Poirot, his mouth open, heard the bang of the front door. He ejaculated: "Non d'un nom d'un nom...”
― Agatha Christie, Third Girl

“A moment or two later she poked her head round the door again. She spoke in a conspiratorial whisper:

“Just tell me—it’s all right, I’ve sent her on down—did you send that girl to this particular doctor on purpose?”

“Of course I did. His qualifications are—”

“Never mind his qualifications. You know what I mean. He and she—Did you?”

“If you must know, yes.”

“I thought so,” said Mrs. Oliver. “You do think of things, don’t you.”
― Agatha Christie, Third Girl

“You should never believe anything anyone said without first checking it.
Suspect everybody, had been for many years, if not his whole life, one of his first axioms.”
― Agatha Christie, Third Girl

“I will give you my valuable advice. You needn't take it. People seldom do take advice, but you might as well have it.”
― Agatha Christie, Third Girl

“For some reason, Poirot had always been a person it was easy to talk to.”
― Agatha Christie, Third Girl

“The old, you must remember, though considered incapable of action, have nevertheless a good fund of experience on which to draw.”
― Agatha Christie, Third Girl

“Poirot had the capacity to attract confidences. It was as though when people were talking to him they hardly realised who it was they were talking to.”
― Agatha Christie, Third Girl

“The well-known detective story writer and Hercule Poirot were on friendly terms.”
― Agatha Christie, Third Girl

“That is most interesting,” said Hercule Poirot, cheerfully. “There are many different names for these things. Very grand names. Names rolled out happily by psychiatrists, psychologists and others. But when you say crazy, that describes very well what the general appearance may be to ordinary, everyday people. Eh bien, then, you are crazy, or you appear crazy or you think you are crazy, and possibly you may be crazy. But all the same that is not to say the condition is serious. It is a thing that people suffer from a good deal, and it is usually easily cured with the proper treatment. It comes about because people have had too much mental strain, too much worry, have studied too much for examinations, have dwelled too much perhaps on their emotions, have too much religion or have a lamentable lack of religion, or have good reasons for hating their fathers or their mothers! Or, of course, it can be as simple as having an unfortunate love affair.”
― Agatha Christie, Third Girl