After the Funeral Quotes

“For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away …”
― Agatha Christie, After the Funeral

“Yes, yes-you will give him the earth-because you love him. Love him too much for safety or for happiness. But you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.”
― Agatha Christie, After the Funeral

“It is a profound belief of mine that if you can induce a person to talk to you for long enough, on any subject whatever! sooner or later they will give themselves away.”
― Agatha Christie, After the Funeral

“To see ourselves as others see us!”
― Agatha Christie, After the Funeral

“I may," said Poirot in a completely unconvinced tone, "be wrong."
Morton smiled. "But that doesn't often happen to you?"
"No. Though I will admit - yes, I am forced to admit - that it has happened to me."
"I must say I'm glad to hear it! To be always right must be sometimes monotonous."
"I do not find it so," Poirot assured him.”
― Agatha Christie, After the Funeral

“The very simple-minded have often the genius to commit an uncomplicated crime and then leave it alone.”
― Agatha Christie, After the Funeral

“But if I am right,” thought Poirot, “and after all, it is natural to me to be right”
― Agatha Christie, After the Funeral

“I am in my own line a celebrated person—I may say a most celebrated person. My gifts, in fact, are unequalled!”
― Agatha Christie, After the Funeral

“the world is full of the young – or even the middle-aged – who wait, patiently or impatiently, for the death of someone whose decease will give them if not affluence – then opportunity”
― Agatha Christie, After the Funeral

“Women are never kind,’ remarked Poirot. ‘Though they can sometimes be tender.”
― Agatha Christie, After the Funeral

“Funerals are absolutely fatal for a man of your age.”
― Agatha Christie, After the Funeral

“It would underline the point that it is unwise to make jokes about murder," said Poirot drily.”
― Agatha Christie, After the Funeral

“It shows you, Madame, the dangers of conversations. It is a profound belief of mine that if you can induce a person to talk to you for long enough, on any subject whatever! sooner or later they will give themselves away.”
― Agatha Christie, After the Funeral

“He is not, I fear, a very faithful husband?” Poirot hazarded. Rosamund, however, did not reject the statement. “No.” “But you do not mind?” “Well, it’s rather fun in a way,” said Rosamund. “I mean having a husband that all the other women want to snatch away from you. I should hate to be married to a man that nobody wanted”
― Agatha Christie, After the Funeral

“Sometimes, is it not, the Past will not be left, will not suffer itself to pass into oblivion? It stands at one’s elbow—it says, ‘I am not done with yet.”
― Agatha Christie, After the Funeral

“Let us admit without more ado that the world is full of the young—or even the middle-aged—who wait, patiently or impatiently, for the death of someone whose decease will give them if not affluence—then opportunity.”
― Agatha Christie, After the Funeral

“The old shouldn’t stand in the way of the young.”
― Agatha Christie, After the Funeral

“The value of money is always relative,” said Mr. Entwhistle. “It is the need that counts.”
― Agatha Christie, After the Funeral

“They had dined off sole veronique, followed by escalope de veau milanaise, proceeding to poire flambée with ice cream. They had drunk a Pouilly Fuissé followed by a Corton, and a very good port now reposed at Mr. Entwhistle’s elbow. Poirot, who did not care for port, was sipping Crème de Cacao.”
― Agatha Christie, After the Funeral

“Wives madly devoted to unsatisfactory and often what appeared quite unprepossessing husbands, wives contemptuous of, and bored by, apparently attractive and impeccable husbands. What any woman saw in some particular man was beyond the comprehension of the average intelligent male. It just was so. A woman who could be intelligent about everything else in the world could be a complete fool when it came to some particular man.”
― Agatha Christie, After the Funeral

“Women are never kind,’ remarked Poirot. ‘Though they can sometimes be tender”
― Agatha Christie, After the Funeral

“But you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.”
― Agatha Christie, After the Funeral

“Everyone had accepted U.N.A.R.C.O. as a matter of course—had even pretended to know all about it! How averse human beings were ever to admit ignorance!”
― Agatha Christie, After the Funeral

“The woman’s at a certain time of life—craving for sensation, unbalanced, unreliable—might say anything. They do, you know!”
― Agatha Christie, After the Funeral

“Women are never kind,” remarked Poirot. “Though they can sometimes be tender.”
― Agatha Christie, After the Funeral

“Wives madly devoted to unsatisfactory and often what appeared quite unprepossessing husbands, wives contemptuous of, and bored by, apparently attractive and impeccable husbands.”
― Agatha Christie, After the Funeral

“At my age, the main pleasure, almost the only pleasure that still remains, is the pleasure of the table,”
― Agatha Christie, After the Funeral

“Women can be fools in ninety-nine different ways but be pretty shrewd in the hundredth.”
― Agatha Christie, After the Funeral