Cat Among the Pigeons Quotes

“Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

“One must make one's own mistakes”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

“No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

“But Aunt Maureen makes smashing omelettes." Julia Upjohn.

"She makes smashing omelettes." Poirot's voice was happy. He sighed.

"Then Hercule Poirot has not lived in vain, he said. It was I who taught your Aunt Maureen to make an omelette.”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

“Miss Bulstrode had another faculty which demonstrated her superiority over most other women. She could listen.”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

“The thing people don't seem to want anywhere nowadays...is anyone who's got a bit of ordinary common sense...but I often think that that's the only thing the world really needs-just a bit of common sense.”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

“Don't you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child?
Miss Bulstrode's thoughts.”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

“She could be attractive when she wanted to be but life had taught her that efficiency and competence often paid better results and avoided painful complications.”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

“Well,” said Adam, as Poirot went out. “First girls’ knees, and now draughtsmanship! What next, I wonder!”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

“Snapshots were handed round. The menace of coloured transparencies was in the offing. All the enthusiasts wanted to show their own pictures, but to get out of being forced to see other people's.”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

“They knew, none better, the havoc caused by a good-looking young man to the hearts of adolescent girls.”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

“And, frankly, I don’t like murder. It’s the sort of thing that’s fun to read about in the paper or to read yourself to sleep with in the way of a nice book. But the real thing isn’t so good.”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

“Everybody always knows something," said Adam. "Even if it's something they don't know they know.”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

“If she’d been born in an African tribe she might have been a witch doctor.”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

“You seem to have explanations for everything, Mr. Poirot.”
“That’s his speciality,”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

“You can’t hold on to the past. A certain amount of tradition is good but never too much. A school is for the children of today. It’s not for the children of fifty years ago or even of thirty years ago.”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

“Fine bit of building,” said Kelsey, looking at it. “It cost us a pretty penny,” said Miss Bulstrode, “but we can afford it,” she added serenely.”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

“O que importa para você é o ensino e o lado ético. Sua visão está certa. Mas, se quiser fazer sucesso com qualquer coisa, sabe, terá que ser boa empresária também. Ideias são como qualquer outra coisa: precisam ser vendidas.”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

“Os tolos compram coisas que morrem nas primeiras geadas e aí desejam ter ficado com os girassóis e os bem-me-queres!”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

“Mas nós não somos selvagens! Somos civilizados hoje em dia.
- Há diferentes tipos de civilizações... - disse Bob vagamente. - Além disso, eu prefiro pensar que todos temos algo de selvageria dentro de nós... Se conseguirmos pensar em uma boa desculpa para deixá-la escapar.”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

“Disciplina sem arregimentação.”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

“Oh, democracy—” Bob waved his pipe. “That’s a word that means different things everywhere. One thing’s certain. It never means what the Greeks originally meant by it.”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

“The thing people don't seem to want anywhere, nowadays," said Bob, "is anyone who's got a bit of common sense. I've never been a brainy chap―well, you know that well enough, Ali―but I often think that that's what the world really needs―just a bit of common sense.”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

“There was nothing mass produced about the school, but if it was individualistic, it also had discipline. Discipline without regimentation, was Miss Bulstrode's motto. Discipline, she held, was reassuring to the young, it gave them a feeling of security; regimentation gave rise to irritation.”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

“Miss Bulstrode turned smilingly to Mrs.
Upjohn, but did not ask her to sit. It was
possible that, despite Julia's appearance of
cheerful common sense, her mother, too,
might want to explain that her daughter was
highly strung.

'Is there anything special you want to tell
me about Julia?' she asked.

Mrs. Upjohn replied cheerfully:

'Oh no, I don't think so. Julia's a very
ordinary sort of child. Quite healthy and all
that. I think she's got reasonably good brains,
too, but I daresay mothers usually think that
about their children, don't they?'

'Mothers,' said Miss Bulstrode grimly, 'vary!”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

“But democracy―' began Ali.

'Oh, democracy―' Bob waved his pipe. 'That's a word that means different things everywhere. One thing's certain. It never means what the Greeks originally meant by it.”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

“I’ve never had any chance at displaying my talents as a sleuth. I think I might be rather good at it.”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

“You never really get caught up in things, do you, Ann?"

“No,” said Ann thoughtfully, “I don’t think I do. I think I’m one of those people who is a born observer. More like a commentator on the radio.”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

“Not that Miss Bulstrode would have allowed herself to be commanded if she had not wished to do so.”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons

“I rather think we’ve all got a bit of savage in us — if we can think up a good excuse for letting it rip.”
― Agatha Christie, Cat Among the Pigeons