Evil Under the Sun Quotes

“To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“Ah! Madame, I reserve the explanations for the last chapter.”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“There is no such thing as a really calm sea. Always, always, there is motion.”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“Nowadays, no one believes in evil. It is considered, at most, a mere negation of good. Evil, people say, is done by those who know no better - who are undeveloped - who are to be pitied rather than blamed. But, M. Poirot, evil is real! It is a fact! I believe in Evil as I believe in Good. It exists! It is powerful! It walks the earth!' He stopped. His breath was coming fast. He wiped his forehead with his handkerchief and looked suddenly apologetic. 'I'm sorry. I got carried away.”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“That is what I mean. A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one turns the taps and fills it, one gets in, one gets out and ghoosh - ghoosh - ghoosh, the water goes down the waste pipe!"
"M. Poirot are you quite mad?"
"No, I am extremely sane.”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“Everything is possible, isn't it? The world soon teaches one that!”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“I enrage myself with an imbecile. I say, 'I would like to kick him.' Instead I kick the table. I say, 'This table, it is the imbecile, I kick him so.”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“If you hadn’t anything worth saying why go chattering all the time?”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“I was interested, M. Poirot, in something you said just now. You said that there was evil done everywhere under the sun. It was almost a quotation from Ecclesiastes.” He paused and then quoted himself: “Yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live.”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“To marry and have children, that is the common lot of women. Only one woman in a hundred--more, in a thousand, can make for herself a name and position as you have done.”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“It is romantic, yes,” agreed Hercule Poirot. “It is peaceful. The sun shines. The sea is blue. But you forget, Miss Brewster, there is evil everywhere under the sun.”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“There is no such thing as a plain fact of murder. Murder springs, nine times out of ten, out of the character and circumstances of the murdered person. Because the victim was the kind of person he or she was, therefore was he or she murdered! Until we can understand fully and completely exactly what kind of a person [she] was, we shall not be able to see clearly exactly the kind of person who murdered her. From that spring the necessity of our questions.”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“É un luogo romantico, sì" convenne Poirot, "e tranquillo. Il sole brilla e il mare è un incanto. Ma dimentica, signorina Brewster, che il male si annida dovunque, sotto il sole.”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“Some people might have scrupulously removed themselves from earshot of a private conversation. But not Hercule Poirot. He had no scruples of that kind. “Besides,” as he explained to his friend Hastings at a later date, “it was a question of murder.”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“Some people might have scrupulously removed themselves from earshot of a private conversation. But not Hercule Poirot. He had no scruples of that kind.”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“Sorrow for a person is different—one can’t put that behind one. But one can get over shock and horror by just not letting your mind dwell on it all the time.”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“Nowadays, no one believes in evil. It is considered, at most, a mere negation of good. Evil, people say, is done by those who know no better—who are undeveloped—who are to be pitied rather than blamed.”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“Mademoiselle, se non è sposata, vuol dire che nessuno del mio sesso è stato abbastanza eloquente: per scelta e non per necessità, si resta nubili.”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“was tall and slender. She wore a simple backless white bathing dress and every inch of her exposed body was tanned a beautiful even shade of bronze.”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“You damned interfering murdering lousy little worm!”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“Their Empire is of the moment and for the moment. To count—really and truly to count—a woman must have goodness or brains.”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“To marry and have children, that is the common lot of women. Only one woman in a hundred—more, in a thousand, can make for herself a name and a position as you have done.”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“My God, I’m sick of answering questions. I’ve answered the police questions. I don’t feel called upon to answer yours.” Poirot said: “Mine is a very simple one. Only this.”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“He’s pretty old. Probably more or less ga ga.”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“His voice was so fierce, so charged with feeling, that Weston recoiled a little.”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“Her fair skin was suddenly suffused with colour.”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“We’ve got to go through a certain amount of routine, you see. Asking everybody for an account of their movements this morning. Just for our records.”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“Mrs. Gardener, industrious as ever, settled herself in her chair, and began to knit vigorously and talk at the same time.”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun

“She wept stormily and bitterly against Poirot’s accommodating shoulder.”
― Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun