Death in the Clouds Quotes

“Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“Life can be very terrible," he said. "One needs much courage."
"To kill oneself? yes, I suppose one does."
"Also to live," said Poirot, "one needs courage.”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. - Hercule Poirot”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“Mon ami,' said Poirot with dignity, 'when I commit a murder it will not be with the arrow poison of the South American Indians.”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“You are young still. Naturally, one tries this, that and the other, but what one eventually settles down into is the life one prefers.”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“Science is the greatest romance there is”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“It is romantic, you know, the transatlantic telephone. To speak so easily to someone nearly halfway across the globe. The telegraphed photograph - that, too, is romantic. Science is the greatest romance there is.”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“Looks a bit fishy to me," said Japp. "He actually had a blowpipe, and look at his manner. All to pieces."
"That is the severity of your official demeanor, my good Japp."
"There's nothing for anyone to be afraid of if they're only telling the truth," said the Scotland Yard man austerely.
Poirot looked at him pityingly. "In verity, I believe that you yourself honestly believe that.”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“Las mujeres, claro está, deben pensar en ellas mismas.”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“I'd rather a man felt that he was enjoying himself looking after me than that he should feel I was a duty to be attended to”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“There comes to everyone a turning point in their lives, M. Poirot. They stand at the crossroads and have to decide. My profession interests me enormously; it is a sorrow - a very great sorrow - to abandon it. But there are other claims. There is, M. Poirot, the happiness of a human being.”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“A meal should always lie lightly on the estomac," said Poirot. "It should not be so heavy as to paralyze thought.”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“¡El dinero es ridículo! ¡El crédito es ridículo! ¡Convenga usted en que la vida tiene mucho de ridículo!”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“He’s French, though. You’ve got to look out with the French, they always say so.”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“I am eccentric, possibly, but mad, no. - Hercule Poirot”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“His whole personality seemed to change. The handsome, vigorous young man turned into a rat-like creature with furtive eyes looking for a way of escape and finding none…”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later…Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“What an odd little man he was—hopping from subject to subject like a bird from one branch to another!”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“No, because I may, you see, be wrong—totally and utterly wrong. And in that case I might lead you, too, astray. No, let us each work according to our own ideas.”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“Blowpipes and darts——heathen, I call it,” said Mrs. Mitchell.
“You are right,” said Poirot, addressing her with a flattering air of being struck by her remarks. “Not so is an English murder committed.”
“You’re right, sir.”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“Pottery - the whole romance of humanity can be expressed in terms of poetry.”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“M. Poirot, almost certainly the criminal; the only man on board who could create a psychological moment.”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“Высокая репутация — первейшая необходимость для шайки жуликов.”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“Si se estudia un problema con orden y método, no hay dificultad alguna en resolverlo (Hércules Poirot)”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“Flapjack.”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“Life can be very terrible,’ he said. ‘One needs much courage.’ ‘To kill oneself? Yes, I suppose one does.’ ‘Also to live,’ said Poirot, ‘one needs courage.”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“Oh. I see,' said Jane, who didn't.”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“Life can be very terrible,’ he said. ‘One needs much courage.’ ‘To kill oneself? Yes”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“When everything else fails—music remains.”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds