Nemesis Quotes

“I really cannot understand the point of what you're saying. Really,' said Clotilde, looking at her. 'What a very extraordinary person you are. What sort of a woman are you? Why are you talking like this? Who are you?'

Miss Marple pulled down the mass of pink wool that encircled her head, a pink wool scarf of the same kind that she had once worn in the West Indies.

'One of my names,' she said, 'is Nemesis.'

'Nemesis? And what does that mean?'

'I think you know,' said Miss Marple. 'You are a very well educated woman. Nemesis is long delayed sometimes, but it comes in the end.”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“I know when a couple are really in love with each other. And by that I do not mean just sexually attracted. There is too much talk about sex, too much attention is paid to it. I do not mean that anything about sex is wrong. That is nonsense. But sex cannot take the place of love, it goes with love, but cannot succeed by itself.”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“It has just happened that I have found myself in the vicinity of murder rather more often than would seem normal.”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“I know he'll probably always be like it, but I love him. I may be able to help him and I may not. But I'll take that risk.”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“Accuracy is more a male quality than a female one. - Jane Marple”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“The only thing I shall want for a rainy day will be my umbrella.”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“Who was there to guard youth from pain and death - youth who could not, who had never been able to, guard itself? Did they know too little? Or was it that they knew too much, and therefore thought they knew it all?”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“Clotilde, Miss Marple thought, was certainly no Ophelia, but she would have made a magnificent Clytemnestra---she could have stabbed a husband in his bath with exultation. But since she had never had a husband, that solution wouldn’t do. Miss Marple could not see her murdering anyone else but a husband---and there had been no
Agamemnon in this house.”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“you prefer to continue knitting, that is your decision. If you prefer to serve the cause of justice, I hope that you may at least find it interesting. Let justice roll down like waters. And righteousness like an everlasting stream. Amos.”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“There is too much talk about sex, too much attention is paid to it. I do not mean that anything about sex is wrong. That is nonsense. But sex cannot take the place of love, it goes with love but it cannot succeed by itself. To love means the words of the marriage service. For better, for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health. That is what you take on if you love and wish to marry.”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“Ah, I see you are an actress, Miss Marple, as well as an avenger.”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“One does not like to make definite assertions unless one has a little more definite knowledge.”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“They wish not to become adult—not to have to accept our kind of responsibility. And yet like all children, they want to be thought grown up, and free to do what they think are grown up things. And that leads sometimes to tragedy and sometimes to the aftermath of tragedy.”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“So many things are difficult,” said Miss Marple. It was a useful phrase which she used often.”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing; Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness.”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“I have made it a habit,” said Miss Marple. “To be careful?” “I should not put it exactly like that, but I have made a point of being always ready to disbelieve as well as believe anything that is told to me.”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“You could ask your bank manager’s advice, you know, Miss Marple. It really is- one never knows when one wants something for a rainy day.’
‘The only thing I shall want for a rainy day will be my umbrella,’ said Miss Marple.”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“To-tre dager senere mottok frøken Marple et brev med ettermiddagsposten. Hun tok det opp, og som vanlig snudde hun det, kikket på poststempelet og håndskriften, kom til at det ikke var en regning og åpnet konvolutten.”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“I am old,’ said Miss Marple. ‘Elderly, we say, but old is a better word. Definitely old.”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“Very odd, isn't it, that the retribution one brings on oneself fits so closely with what has caused it.”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“О, як важко іноді буває чітко сформулювати те, що лиш промайнуло тобі в голові

Міс Марпл

Розділ 20. Міс Марпл міркує”
― Агата Крісті, Nemesis

“Усе те, що з ним сталося, було не його провиною, так вона нас запевняла. Ви знаєте, як ото дівчата кажуть: "Усі проти нього!", так вони завжди кажуть. Усі проти нього. Ніхто не хоче розуміти його...невже закохані дівчата неспроможні почути голос тверезого глузду?

Клотільда

Розділ 20. Міс Марпл міркує”
― Агата Крісті, Nemesis

“Лише в розмові, з якоїсь випадкової репліки можна здобути необхідний ключ

Міс Марпл

Розділ 12. Нарада”
― Агата Крісті, Nemesis

“Хто захистить юність від болю й смерті? Юність, яка ніколи не вміла берегтися й остерігатися. Тому, що вона надто мало знає?Чи тому, що знає надто багато?А отже, думає, що їй відомо все

Розділ 10. "Пригадуються мені далекі й чудові дні”
― Агата Крісті, Nemesis

“Коли вам відомо про когось, що він дуже багатий, то ви чомусь нехочете знати про нього більше. Тобто вам і не треба знати про нього більше. Ви кажете: "Він дуже багатий" або "Він неймовірно багатий", - і ваш голос відразу починає звучати тихіше, бо ви завжди відчуваєте розгубленість, коли вам зустрічається хтось неймовірно багатий

Розділ четвертий. Естер Волтерс”
― Агата Крісті, Nemesis

“...о Господи, на яку кашу перетворюються події з минулого, коли хочеш їх згадати більш або менш точно!

Розділ перший. Пролог”
― Агата Крісті, Nemesis

“Міс Марпл бувши жінкою старомодною, воліла, щоб її газети були газетами й публікували новини, а не плітки та всіляку нісенітницю

Розділ перший. Пролог”
― Агата Крісті, Nemesis

“Розумієте, - додала вона, - люди дуже бентежаться, коли їм доводиться дякувати комусь і починати нове життя, дивитися на все під іншим кутом і таке інше

Міс Марпл

Розділ 23. Кілька останніх сцен”
― Агата Крісті, Nemesis