The Complete Tommy & Tuppence Collection Quotes

“And they had no idea that they and many others were automatically pronounced deadly dull solely on that account. Only by the young of course, but then, they would have thought indulgently, young people knew nothing about life. Poor dears, they were always worrying about examinations, or their sex life, or buying some extraordinary clothes, or doing some extraordinary things to their hair to make them more noticeable.”
― Agatha Christie, The Complete Tommy And Tuppence

“other, stood there, looking hostile. “Can I see Colonel Pikeaway?”
― Agatha Christie, The Complete Tommy & Tuppence Collection: The Secret Adversary, Partners in Crime, N or M?, By the Pricking of My Thumbs, and Postern of Fate

“Tuppence had once laid upon him a serious injunction. ' If anybody over the age of sixty-five finds fault with you,' she said, 'never argue. Never try to say you're right. Apologize at once and say it was all your fault and you're very sorry and you'll never do it again.”
― Agatha Christie, The Complete Tommy And Tuppence

“By the pricking of my thumbs
Something wicked this way comes. —Macbeth”
― Agatha Christie, The Complete Tommy & Tuppence Collection

“Patriotism is not enough . . . I must have no hatred in my heart.”
― Agatha Christie, The Complete Tommy & Tuppence Collection