At Bertram's Hotel Quotes

“I learned (what I suppose I really knew already) that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back—that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street, isn’t it?”
― Agatha Christie, At Bertram's Hotel

“In every profession and walk of life there is someone who is vulnerablle to temptation. (Mr. Barnes)”
― Agatha Christie, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

“I was born to live dangerously.”
― Agatha Christie, At Bertram's Hotel

“Murder—the wish to do murder—is something quite different. It—how shall I say?—it defies God.”
― Agatha Christie, At Bertram's Hotel

“Miss Marple seldom gave anyone the benefit of the doubt; she invariably thought the worst, and nine times out of ten, so she insisted, she was right in so doing.”
― Agatha Christie, At Bertram's Hotel

“It's just that I am not really a safe person to be with. The life I'd lead wouldn't be a safe life.”
― Agatha Christie , At Bertram's Hotel

“You know what girls are -- they go to these queer parties in studios where the young men have funny ties and they come home and talk a lot of nonsense.”
― Agatha Christie, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

“Yes,” said Miss Marple. “The children of Lucifer are often beautiful—And as we know, they flourish like the green bay tree.”
― Agatha Christie, At Bertram's Hotel

“I am not concerned with nations, Monsieur. I am concerned with the lives of private individuals who have the right not to have their lives taken from them.”
― Agatha Christie, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

“Miss Maple sighed.

‘It seemed wonderful at first—unchanged you know—like stepping back into the past—to the part of the past that one had loved and enjoyed.’

She paused.

‘But of course, it wasn't really like that. I learned (what I suppose I really knew already) that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back—that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street, isn't it?”
― Agatha Christie, At Bertram's Hotel

“There are certain humiliating moments in the lives of the greatest of men. It has been said that no man is a hero to his valet. To that may be added that few men are heroes to themselves at the moment of visiting their dentist.”
― Agatha Christie, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

“In verity, there are some Englishmen who are altogether so unpleasing and ridiculous that they should have been put out of their misery at birth.”
― Agatha Christie, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

“can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back—that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street, isn’t it?”
― Agatha Christie, At Bertram's Hotel

“There was, of course, central heating, but it was not apparent.”
― Agatha Christie, At Bertram's Hotel

“De kinderen van Lucifer zijn dikwijls mooi. En zoals wij weten, gaat het hun altijd voor de wind. (Miss Marple)”
― Agatha Christie, At Bertram's Hotel

“Running into danger has become a kind of habit with me. No, I wouldn’t say habit. More an addiction. Like a drug. Like that nice little dollop of heroin addicts have to have every so often to make life seem bright coloured and worth living.”
― Agatha Christie, At Bertram's Hotel

“Luscombe perceived that Ladislaus Malinowski was one of Elvira’s heroes. “Well,” he thought to himself, “better that than one of those pop singers or crooners or long-haired Beatles or whatever they call themselves.” Luscombe was old-fashioned in his views of young men.”
― Agatha Christie, At Bertram's Hotel

“There were people who would have smiled in gentle derision at this pronouncement on the part of an old-fashioned old lady who could hardly be expected to be an authority on nymphomania, and indeed it was not a word that Miss Marple would have used—her own phrase would have been “always too fond of men.” But Lady Selina accepted her opinion as a confirmation of her own.”
― Agatha Christie, At Bertram's Hotel

“I learned (what I suppose I really knew already) that one can never go back, that one should not every try to go back -- that the essence of life is going forward. Life really is a One Way Street. isn't it?”
― Agatha Christie, At Bertram's Hotel

“Poirot sighed and rose. He said:
“I see, Mr. Raikes, that you are an idealist.”
“What if I am?”
“Too much of an idealist to care about the death of a dentist.”
Mr. Raikes said scornfully:
“What does the death of one miserable dentist matter?”
Hercule Poirot said:
“It does not matter to you. It matters to me. That is the difference between us.”
― Agatha Christie, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

“I knew, you see, that I'd never had a wife.”
― Agatha Christie, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

“I don't know if I ought to do so. I would like you to believe, Inspector, that I am not really fond of interfering. I am against interference. Though often well meant, it can cause a great deal of harm.”
― Agatha Christie, At Bertram's Hotel

“violet creams”
― Agatha Christie, At Bertram's Hotel

“Father looked thoughtfully at the two women facing him. Mother and daughter. There was, he noted, a strong superficial likeness between them. He could understand how for one moment in the fog he had taken Elvira Blake for Bess Sedgwick.”
― Agatha Christie, At Bertram's Hotel

“but his face is a bad face. Cruel, hawklike, predatory.”
― Agatha Christie, At Bertram's Hotel

“asked Father, speaking in an easy and confidential way.”
― Agatha Christie, At Bertram's Hotel

“Father persevered for a little longer but soon decided that conversation with General Radley was practically impossible and almost certainly unprofitable.”
― Agatha Christie, At Bertram's Hotel

“He was impressed, as everyone was impressed, by Henry’s personality. Though such a large and portly man he had appeared, as it were, like some vast travesty of Ariel who could materialize and vanish at will.”
― Agatha Christie, At Bertram's Hotel

“Vaguely reminiscent of a large bumblebee, Chief-Inspector Fred Davy wandered around the confines of the Criminal Investigation Department, humming to himself.”
― Agatha Christie, At Bertram's Hotel

“He addressed himself to the telephone with vigour and a complete disregard for expense, which made Mrs. McCrae purse her lips anxiously, although not really disapproving, because definitely her master had got to be tracked down.”
― Agatha Christie, At Bertram's Hotel