Murder Is Easy Quotes

“Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else."

"Oh! my dear Love, I know. You want reality. So do I. What's between us will last for ever because it's founded on reality.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and dearest.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“Sanity is the one unbelievable bore. One must be mad, slightly twisted - then one sees life from a new and entrancing angle.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“Truth is seldom romantic.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“Anybody who can belive six impossible things before breakfast wins hands down in this game.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“I mean that if you are not absolutely sure of a thing, it is so difficult to commit yourself to a definite course of action.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“Men have courage-one knows that...but they are more easily deceived than women.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“Living alone, with no one to consult or talk to, one might easily become melodramatic, and imagine things which had no foundation on fact.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“No, no, my dear boy, that’s where you’re wrong. It’s very easy to kill—so long as no one suspects you. And you see, the person in question is just the last person anyone would suspect!”
― Agatha Christie, Murder is Easy

“For, once there's a death, one doesn't like to think there's been harsh words spoken and no chance of taking them back.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“It's no good going back over the past. It's the future one has to live for.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“Truth,” she said, “is seldom romantic.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder is Easy

“My boy, I know what I’m talking about. Mind you, I’m not saying marriage doesn’t come hard on a fellow at first. It does. Fellow says to himself, damn it all, he says, I can’t call my soul my own! But he gets broken in. It’s all discipline.” Luke”
― Agatha Christie, Murder is Easy

“you. And you see, the person in question is just the last person anyone would suspect!”
― Agatha Christie, Murder is Easy

“No, no, my dear boy, that’s where you’re wrong. It’s very easy to kill—so long as no one suspects”
― Agatha Christie, Murder is Easy

“The look he gave me when I went away from the house the other day. Superior, condescending, the smile of a man who’d just led me up the garden path and knew it”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“Mrs. Church, Amy Gibbs’s aunt, was definitely an unpleasant woman. Her sharp nose, shifty eyes, and her voluble tongue all alike filled Luke with nausea.

He adopted a curt manner with her and found it unexpectedly successful.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“Then, with a smile, she nodded a farewell and went back into the house.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“Luke knew how to accept defeat when he met it.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“Luke assented readily to this statement, recognizing its inherent truth”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“He could not see Mrs. Humbleby’s face very distinctly. Her voice was rather monotonous, but its very lack of feeling seemed to emphasize the fact that actually feeling was in her, strenuously held back.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“Rose led the way into a room where twilight hung rather sadly.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“You’ve exorcised the brute’s sulky temper, though. Funny, I feel as though I’d come out of a dark cloud into the sun.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“Luke looked at her. His face had a queer pallor, like a man who is suffering physical pain.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“Lord Whitfield was in his most genial mood, acting the part of the host with a good deal of enjoyment.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“Major Horton seemed genuinely to regret a wife who, by all accounts, not excluding his own, must have been nearly allied to a man-eating tiger.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“She was represented in a pink satin dress and was holding a bunch of lilies of the valley. Her brown hair was parted in the middle and her lips were pressed grimly together. Her eyes, of a cold grey, looked out ill-temperedly at the beholder.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“He went on: “So this is the Witches’ Meadow?” “Yes.”
He looked down at her. “You only need a broomstick,” he said kindly.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“It was a minute or two before she answered—as though she still had not quite come back from that far-off world that had held her. Luke felt that his words had to travel a long way before they reached her.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“The sun had come out while he was talking to Rose Humbleby. Now it had gone in again. The sky was dull and menacing, and wind came in sudden erratic little puffs. It was as though he had stepped out of normal everyday life into that queer half-world of enchantment, the consciousness of which had enveloped him ever since he came to Wychwood.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy