By the Pricking of My Thumbs Quotes

“That's where all the trouble in life comes from. Thinking.”
― Agatha Christie, By the Pricking of My Thumbs

“I don’t particularly want to think of your funeral because I’d much prefer to die before you do. But I mean, if I were going to your funeral, at any rate it would be an orgy of grief. I should take a lot of handkerchiefs.”
― Agatha Christie, By the Pricking of My Thumbs

“I've got a very nice staff here. People with patience, you know, and good temper, and not too brainy, because if you have people who are brainy, they are bound to be very impatient.”
― Agatha Christie, By the Pricking of My Thumbs

“The things she said seemed to have very little relation to the last thing she had said a minute before. She was the sort of person, Tommy thought, who might know a great deal more than she chose to reveal.”
― Agatha Christie, By the Pricking of My Thumbs

“They're like children, really. Only children are far more logical which makes it difficult sometimes with them. But these people are illogical, they want to be reassured by your telling them what they want to believe. Then they're quite happy again for a bit.”
― Agatha Christie, By the Pricking of My Thumbs

“I’ve become a killer of the Lord. It’s the Lord’s will that I should kill you. So that makes it all right. You do see that, don’t you? You see, it makes it all right.”
― Agatha Christie, By the Pricking of My Thumbs

“She was an expert in the exact amount of condolence which would be acceptable.”
― Agatha Christie, By the Pricking of My Thumbs

“I hate mourning,” she said. “It always smells of moth balls because it’s been laid up somewhere.” “You don’t need to go on wearing mourning. It’s only to go to the funeral in,” said Tommy. “Oh no, I know that. In a minute or two I’m going to go up and put on a scarlet jersey just to cheer things up. You can make me another White Lady.” “Really, Tuppence, I had no idea that funerals would bring out this party feeling.”
― Agatha Christie, By the Pricking of My Thumbs

“This book is dedicated to the many readers in this and in other countries who write to me asking: ‘What has happened to Tommy and Tuppence? What are they doing now?’ My best wishes to you all, and I hope you will enjoy meeting Tommy and Tuppence again, years older, but with spirit unquenched!”
― Agatha Christie, By the Pricking of My Thumbs

“I loved her- I always loved her- no matter what she was-I wanted her safe- not shut up- a prisoner for life, eating her heart out. And we did keep her safe- for many years"
Phillip Stark”
― Agatha Christie, By the Pricking of My Thumbs

“I daresay people have liked murderers,” said Tuppence very reasonably. “It’s like swindlers and confidence tricksmen who always look so honest and seem so honest. I daresay murderers all seem very nice and particularly softhearted. That sort of thing.”
― Agatha Christie, By the Pricking of My Thumbs

“You don't stop being in love with anyone because you get old. People like Derek and Deborah think you do. They can't imagine anyone who isn't young being in love.”
― Agatha Christie, By the Pricking of My Thumbs

“Time goes a different pace in different places. Some places you come back to, and you feel that time has been busting along at a terrific rate and that all sorts of things will have happened - and changed.”
― Agatha Christie, By the Pricking of My Thumbs

“Besides a burial service is rather lovely. Makes you feel uplifted, the grief is real. It makes you feel awful but it does something to you. I mean, it works it out like perspiration.”
― Agatha Christie, By the Pricking of My Thumbs

“Real grief is real. It makes you feel awful but it does something to you. I mean, it works it out like perspiration.”
― Agatha Christie, By the Pricking of My Thumbs

“...Mr. and Mrs. Beresford had not yet arrived at the time of life when they thought of themselves as old. 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 extraordinary things to their hair to make them more noticeable. Mr. and Mrs. Beresford from their own point of view were just past the prime of life. They liked themselves and liked each other and day succeeded day in a quiet but enjoyable fashion.”
― Agatha Christie, By the Pricking of My Thumbs

“إن الوقت يمر بساعات مختلفة في أماكن مختلفة، هناك بعض الأماكن تشعر عندما تعود إليها أن الزمن مر بها بسرعة، وأن أشياء كبيرة حدثت وتغيّرت، ولكن هنا يشعر المرء أن الوقت توقف وكل شيء كما كان!”
― Agatha Christie, By the Pricking of My Thumbs

“مضى الزمن الذي كانت في السيدات المسنات الوحيدات يعشن بسعادة في المنازل التي عِشنَ فيها سنوات عديدة من قبل في رعاية خدم متفانين، وفي أحيان أخرى هناك عدد من الأقارب الفقراء أو العوانس يتطلعون إلى منزل مريح وثلاث وجبات من الطعام الشهي وغرفة نوم مريحة، وكان العرض والطلب يتوافقان وكل شيء على ما يُرام، أما الآن فالأمور تختلف، فلاآن يجب تدبير أماكن في بيوت مناسبة للسيدات المسنات.”
― Agatha Christie, By the Pricking of My Thumbs

“Subdue your melodramatic fancies", said Tommy.”
― Agatha Christie, By the Pricking of My Thumbs