Lord Edgware Dies Quotes

“Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“Do you not realize, Hastings, that each and everyone of us is a complete mystery with layers. We each try to judge each other, but nine times out of ten, we are wrong.”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“One cannot be interested in crime without being interested in psychology. It is not the mere act of killing, it is what lies behind it that appeals to the expert.”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“And that very same evening - that very same evening - Lord Edgware dies. Good title that, by the way. Lord Edgware Dies. Look well on a book stall.”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me.”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“I've heard that you're the cat's whiskers, M. Poirot."
"Comment? The cat's whiskers? I do not understand."
"Well that you're It."
"Madame, I may or may not have brains - as a matter of fact I have - why pretend?”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“Do not antagonize your son! He is of an age to choose for himself. Because his choice is not your choice, do not assume that you must be right. If it is a misfortune—then accept misfortune. Be at hand to aid him when he needs aid. But do not turn him against you.”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“No human being should learn from another. Each individual should develop his own powers to the uttermost, not try to imitate those of someone else. I do not wish you to be a second and inferior Poirot. I wish you to be the supreme Hastings. And you are the supreme Hastings. In you, Hastings, I find the normal mind almost perfectly illustrated.”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“because I’ve always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you. I’ve often done it over contracts. And it’s also a good thing to seem stupider than you are.”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“If you care for money too much, it is only the money you see, everything else is in shadow.”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“Brains. Brains. What do we really mean by the term? In your idiom you would say that Jane Wilkinson has the brains of a rabbit. That is a term of disparagement. But consider the rabbit for a moment. He exists and multiplies, does he not? That, in Nature, is a sign of mental superiority.”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“With more insight into the English character, I poured out a stiff whisky and soda and placed it in front of the gloomy inspector.”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“One sees then with the eyes of the mind.”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“The psychology of character is interesting,”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“Each individual should develop his own powers to the uttermost, not try to imitate those of someone else. I do not wish you to be a second and inferior Poirot. I wish you to be the supreme Hastings.”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“To deceive deliberately—that is one thing. But to be so sure of your facts, of your ideas and of their essential truth that the details do not matter—that, my friend, is a special characteristic of particularly honest persons.”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“Here again, she was amazingly clever. Without make-up of any kind, her features seemed to dissolve suddenly and re-form themselves into those of a famous politician, or a well-known actress, or a society beauty. In each character she gave a short typical speech. These speeches, by the way, were remarkably clever. They seemed to hit off every weakness of the subject selected.”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“should learn from another. Each individual should develop his own powers to the uttermost, not try to imitate those of someone else. I do not wish you to be a second and inferior Poirot. I wish you to be the supreme Hastings. And you are the supreme Hastings. In you, Hastings, I find the normal mind almost perfectly illustrated.”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“Com maior percepção do caráter inglês, servi uma forte dose de uísque com soda e coloquei-a na frente do desditado inspetor.”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“Enemies! People these days don't have enemies! Not English people!”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“No human being should learn from another. Each individual should develop his own powers to the uttermost”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“I do not wish you to be a second and inferior Poirot. I wish you to be the supreme Hastings. And you are the supreme Hastings.”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“One cannot be interested in crime without being interested in psychology.”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“It is a very pretty faith that you have in me, Hastings. It touches me. Do you not know, my friend, that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desires and attitudes? Mais oui, c’est vrai. One makes one’s little judgments—but nine times out of ten one is wrong.”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“P.S Do you think they will put me in Madame Tussands?”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“Seeing Jane's beauty and appreciating the charm that her exquisitely husky voice lent to the most trite utterances, I could hardly wonder at his capitulation.

But one can get used to perfect beauty and an intoxicating voice! It crossed my mind that perhaps even now a ray of common sense was dissipating the mists of intoxicated love”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“I fancied - of course it may have been only my fancy - that he looked slightly ill at ease. The company in which he found himself was, so I could imagine, little to his liking. He was a strictly conservative and somewhat reactionary young man - the kind of character to have stepped out of the Middle Ages by some regrettable mistake. His infatuation for the extremely modern Jane Wilkinson was one of those anachronistic jokes that Nature so loves to play.”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“Thank you, mon ami, I should be delighted to do so. You include Hastings in your invitation, I hope?

Japp grinned.

What do you think? Where the master goes, there the dog follows...”
― agatha christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“The psychology of character is interesting,’ returned Poirot unmoved. ‘One cannot be interested in crime without being interested in psychology. It is not the mere act of killing, it is what lies behind it that appeals to the expert. You follow me, Hastings?”
― Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies