Hallowe'en Party Quotes

“I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

“The past is the father of the present.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

“To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

“You want beauty,” said Hercule Poirot. “Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth I want. Always truth.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

“Put that in your mustache and smoke it.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

“There was only one thing about his own appearance which really pleased Hercule Poirot, and that was the profusion of his moustaches, and the way they responded to grooming and treatment and trimming. They were magnificent. He knew of nobody else who had any moustache half as good.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

“...A brave new world. There isn't anything really like that, is there?"
"You don't believe in it?"
"Do you?"
"There is always a brave new world," said Poirot, "but only, you know, for very special people. The lucky ones. The ones who carry the making of that world within themselves.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

“There is always a brave new world,” said Poirot, “but only, you know, for very special people. The lucky ones. The ones who carry the making of that world within themselves.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

“He has not got ’flu,” said Hercule Poirot. “He has only a nasty cold. Everyone always thinks they have ’flu. It sounds more important. One gets more sympathy.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

“Old sins have long shadows,” quoted Poirot. “As we advance through life, we learn the truth of that saying.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

“Flowers never look so lovely as they do in Paris in the market there.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

“May your moustaches never grow less.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

“Do you know what you sound like?' said Mrs. Oliver. 'A computer. You know. You're programming yourself. That's what they call it, isn't it? I mean you're feeding all these things into yourself all day and then you're going to see what comes out.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

“Once you’ve passed, say, fifty, comfort is the only thing that matters.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

“was suspicious, had always been suspicious, of mercy—too much mercy, that is to say. Too much mercy, as he knew from former experience both in Belgium and this country, often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

“But it is one of the great consolations in nature that a man, however unattractive, will find that he is attractive - to some woman.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

“But to everything that happens there has to be a past. A past which is by now incorporated in today, but which existed yesterday or last month or last year. The present is nearly always rooted in the past.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

“It was not unknown in the present age for children to commit crimes, quite young children. Children of seven, of nine and so on, and it was often difficult to know how to dispose of these natural, it seemed, young criminals who came before the juvenile courts. Excuses had to be brought for them. Broken homes. Negligent and unsuitable parents. But the people who spoke the most vehemently for them, the people who sought to bring forth every excuse for them, were usually the type of Rowena Drake.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

“Do you?” “There is always a brave new world,” said Poirot, “but only, you know, for very special people. The lucky ones. The ones who carry the making of that world within themselves.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

“The past is the father of the present,” said Poirot sententiously.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

“Nobody would ever get anything done nowadays if they weren't in a hurry.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

“but it is one of the great consolations in nature that a man, however unattractive, will find that he is attractive—to some woman.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

“You and I have a principle in common. We do not approve of murder.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

“He has not got ’flu,’ said Hercule Poirot. ‘He has only a nasty cold. Everyone always thinks they have ’flu. It sounds more important. One gets more sympathy. The trouble with a catarrhal cold is that it is hard to glean the proper amount of sympathetic consideration from one’s friends.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

“wanted to know.” “It’s better not to know. It’s better never to know. Better to leave things as they are. Not push and pry and poke.” “You want beauty,” said Hercule Poirot. “Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth I want. Always truth.” Michael”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

“From what you read and hear nowadays, it seems that murder under certain aspects is slowly but surely being made acceptable to a large section of the community.” She”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

“Utrzymać dzikość jest dużo trudniej, niż ją chronić.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

“„Zdá se, že jste minulostí celkem posedlý."
„Minulost je otcem přítomností,"
pronesl Poirot.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

“„Vždycky je nějaký krásný nový svět," Řekl Poirot, „ale víš, jen pro velmi speciální lidi. Pro ty šťastné, kteří svým přispěním svět vytvářejí.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

“Poirot stoupal po cestičce v lomu a znovu si všímal té krásné scenérie.
Půvabné místo - a přece měl pocit, jako už předtím, že by to mohlo být místo strašidelné. Působilo až jakousi pohanskou nemilosrdností. Mezi těmito klikatými cestičkami by vás klidně mohly vábit víly anebo krutá bohyně požadovat lidskou oběť.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party