4 Quotes

“The truth is people are an extraordinary mixture of heroism and cowardice.”
― Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington

“True to the precepts handed down to her by her mother and grandmother—to wit: that a true lady can neither be shocked nor surprised—Miss Marple merely raised her eyebrows and shook her head,”
― Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington

“Don’t go,” said Cedric. “Murder has made you practically one of the family.”
― Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington

“I never feel lonely if I've got a book...”
― Emilia Fox, 4:50 from Paddington

“She could not fail to observe that a life of academic distinction was singularly ill rewarded. She had no desire whatever to teach and she took pleasure in contacts with minds much less brilliant than her own. In short, she had a taste for people, all sorts of people—and not the same people the whole time.”
― Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington

“I think, my dear, we won't talk any more about murder during tea. Such an unpleasant subject.”
― Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington

“Paeonies,” said Miss Marple as she rose from table, “are most unaccountable. Either they do—or they don’t do. But if they do establish themselves, they are with you for life, so to speak, and really most beautiful varieties nowadays.”
― Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington

“Everybody in St. Mary Mead knew Miss Marple; fluffy and dithery in appearance, but inwardly as sharp and as shrewd as they make them.”
― Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington

“Lo malo es que las personas son insaciables. Algunas personas. Muchas veces, así es como empieza todo. No se empieza con el asesinato, con el deseo de cometerlo, ni siquiera pensándolo. Se empieza siendo, sencillamente, avaricioso, queriendo tener más de lo que se ha de recibir.”
― Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington

“All this red tape and form-filling. That’s what comes of a bureaucratic state. Can’t go where you like and do as you please anymore! Somebody’s always asking questions.”
― Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington

“When Miss Marple uttered the word 'gentlemen' she always gave it its full Victorian flavour—an echo from an era actually before her own time. You were conscious at once of dashing full-blooded (and probably whiskered) males, sometimes wicked, but always gallant.”
― Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington

“searched her bag for the ticket that would enable her to”
― Agatha Christie, 4:50 From Paddington

“The face towels had been excellent value and just what Margaret wanted, the space gun for Robby and the rabbit for Jean were highly satisfactory, and that evening coatee was just the thing she herself needed, warm but dressy. The pullover for Hector, too…her mind dwelt with approval on the soundness of her purchases.”
― Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington

“I have been wondering—whether it might perhaps be all much simpler than we suppose. Murders so often are quite simple—with an obvious rather sordid motive….”
― Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington

“And if Dr. Haydock had strictly forbidden her to do practical gardening he would hardly approve of her starting out to track down a murderer.”
― Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington

“I did not hear you. I’m afraid I wasn’t paying attention.”
― Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington

“The two ladies had supper, discussing, as they ate, various aspects of life as lived in the village of St. Mary Mead. Miss Marple commented on the general distrust of the new organist, related the recent scandal about the chemist’s wife, and touched on the hostility between the schoolmistress and the village institute. They then discussed Miss Marple’s and Mrs. McGillicuddy’s gardens.”
― Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington

“that a true lady can neither be shocked nor surprised—Miss Marple merely raised her eyebrows and shook her head,”
― Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington

“Mrs. McGillicuddy, who had said so, did not argue the point. She was sadly out of breath.”
― Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington

“His eye swept her masculine-looking pepper-and-salt tweed coat disparagingly.”
― Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington

“I shall interview her all right. She must be cracked.” Lucy forbore to point out that to be proved right is not really a proof of mental incapacity.”
― Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington

“The intelligent people on whose intelligence she could rely were all far too busy. Not only had they all got jobs of varying importance, their leisure hours were usually apportioned long beforehand. The unintelligent who had time on their hands were simply, Miss Marple decided, no good.”
― Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington

“One wants to know,” said Miss Marple, “what really happened.” “She was killed.” “Yes, but who killed her, and why, and what happened to her body? Where is it now?” “That’s the business of the police to find out.”
― Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington

“Her mind went back to the scene she had witnessed. Horrible, quite horrible… She was a strong-nerved woman, but she shivered. What a strange—what a fantastic thing to happen to her, Elspeth McGillicuddy! If the blind of the carriage had not happened to fly up… But that, of course, was Providence. Providence had willed that she, Elspeth McGillicuddy, should be a witness of the crime. Her lips set grimly.”
― Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington

“Yes,' said Miss Marple. 'I had thought of that.'
'I suppose you think of everything!' said Lucy bitterly.
'Well, dear, one has to really.”
― Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington

“Lo malo es que las personas son insaciables. Algunas personas. Muchas veces, así es como empieza todo. No se empieza con el asesinato, con el deseo de cometerlo, ni siquiera pensándolo. Se empieza siendo, sencillamente, avaricioso, queriendo teniendo más de lo que se ha de recibir.”
― Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington