Curtain Quotes

“Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill-though not the will to kill.”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain

“Underneath the quarrels,the misunderstandings, the apparent hostility of everyday life, a real and true affection can exist. Married life, I mused, as I went to bed,
was a curious thing.”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain

“I will not look through keyholes,” I interrupted hotly. Poirot closed his eyes. “Very well, then. You will not look through keyholes. You will remain the English gentleman and someone will be killed.”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

“Nothing is so sad, in my opinion, as the devastation wrought by age.
My poor friend. I have described him many times. Now to convey to you the difference. Crippled with arthritis, he propelled himself about in a wheelchair. His once plump frame had fallen in. He was a thin little man now. His face was lined and wrinkled. His moustache and hair, and hair, it is true, were still of a jet black colour, but candidly, though I would not for the world have hurt his feelings by saying so to him, this was a mistake. There comes a moment when hair dye is only too painfully obvious. There had been a time when I had been surprised to learn that the blackness of Poirot's hair came out of a bottle. But now the theatricality was apparent and merely created the impression that he wore a wig and had adorned his upper lip to amuse children!”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain

“I don't want to write about it at all.
I want, you see, to think about it as little as possible. Hercule Poirot was dead - and with him died a good part of Arthur Hastings.”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain

“Curious, sometimes, how one’s thoughts seemed to swing in a kaleidoscope. It happened to me now. A bewildering shuffling and reshuffling of memories, of events. Then the mosaic settled into its true pattern.”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

“That’s the depressing part of places like this. Guest houses run by broken-down gentlepeople. They’re full of failures—of people who have never got anywhere and never will get anywhere, of people who—who have been defeated and broken by life, of people who are old and tired and finished.”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

“The darkest day, lived till tomorrow, will have passed away?”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

“Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what the fairies will send you—”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

“I was tired of this silly joking about my 'speaking countenance'. I could keep a secret as well as anyone. Poirot had always persisted in the humiliating belief that I am a transparent character and that anyone can read what is passing in my mind.”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain

“The delicate exotic flower has to have the shelter of the greenhouse—it cannot endure the cold winds. It is the common weed that thrives in the wintry air—but it is not to be prized higher on that account.”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain

“Your daughter's a very enthusiastic scientific worker.”

“I know,” I said rather disconsolately. “It worries me sometimes. It doesn't seem natural, if you know what I mean. I feel she ought to be - more human - more keen on having a good time. Amuse herself - fall in love with a nice boy or two. After all, youth is the time to have one's fling - not to sit poring over test tubes. It isn't natural. In our young days we were having fun - flirting - enjoying ourselves - you know.”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain

“Hercule Poirot was dead — and with him died a good part of Arthur Hastings.”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain

“He notices a good deal. Those quiet people often do.”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain

“Now you must realize this, Hastings. Everyone is a potential murderer. In everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill—though not the will to kill. How often have you not felt or heard others say: ‘She made me so furious”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

“I have always believed that a love of nature was essentially a healthy sign in a man.”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

“شعور رمادية وقلوب رمادية واحلام رمادية!”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain

“És végül a pisztolylövés. Az egyetlen hibám. Halántékon is lőhettem volna. De képtelen voltam rászánni magam, hogy ilyen aszimmetrikus, hebehurgya munkát végezzek. Nem, legyen szimmetrikus a lövés, pontosan a homloka közepébe...”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain

“He has a clear-cut, black and white mind, with an exact knowledge of his own feeling—and a complete disregard for outside pressure.”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain

“He began to discover quite young his own power for influencing people. He was a good listener, he had a quiet sympathetic personality. People liked him without, at the same time, noticing him very much. He resented this—and then made use of it. He discovered how ridiculously easy it was, by using the correct words and supplying the correct stimuli, to influence his fellow creatures. The only thing necessary was to understand them—to penetrate their thoughts, their secret reactions and wishes.”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain

“Yes, my friend—it is odd—and laughable—and terrible! I, who do not approve of murder—I, who value human life—have ended my career by committing murder.”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain

“Cher ami!" Poirot had said to me as I left the room.

They were the last words I was ever to hear him say. For when Curtiss came to attend to his master he found that master dead.”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain

“Two people who have suffered unhappiness have a great bond in common.”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain

“My limbs they are paralysed, my heart, it plays me the tricks, but my brain, Hastings, my brain it functions without impairment of any kind. It is still of the first excellence my brain.”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain

“Ah! Have I got to tell you thirty-six times, and then again thirty-six, that there is no need of physical effort? One needs only-to think.”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain

“One feels safer alone.”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain

“No greater mistake than to think that because a man's tied by the leg it affects his brain pan. Not a bit of it.”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain

“Some day she will know how wise old men are.”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain

“You and I, Hastings, are going hunting once again.”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain

“I do not complain," said Poirot, and proceeded to do so.”
― Agatha Christie, Curtain