Marple Quotes

“Here was the problem with staying in other peoples' houses. Nothing was quite as you would have it yourself.”
― Lucy Foley, Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

“Age is cruel, and crueller still to women. A woman becomes a ghost when she stops being worth looking at.” “A”
― Naomi Alderman, Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

“nothing puts a stop to curiosity quite like happiness.”
― Naomi Alderman, Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

“Age is cruel, and crueller still to women. A woman becomes a ghost when she stops being worth looking at.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

“Ah, my dear,” Aunt Jane smiles kindly, “the problem with that, you see, is that no one is ever the murdering sort until they are.”
― Naomi Alderman, Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

“There was no greater hypocrite than one with a high moral tone, Miss Marple reflected.”
― Naomi Alderman, Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

“the answer had been the politely evasive “Families can be very complicated.” Indeed they can.”
― Naomi Alderman, Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

“Well, apparently addressing racial inequality in one’s work is un-American, so I was hauled before the committee.”
― Naomi Alderman, Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

“Age is cruel, and crueller still to women. A woman becomes a ghost when she stops being worth looking at.”
― Naomi Alderman, Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

“News always reached Miss Marple, one way or another.”
― Natalie Haynes, Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

“It was the expression a certain kind of man got when he encountered a woman too coldly proud to be affected by the heat he passed off as charm, but which was more akin to brimstone. It was a look that said, “If you won’t melt, I’ll shatter you.”
― Naomi Alderman, Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

“He was a frequent guest on the type of angry discussion programme that she often felt tended a little more towards entertainment than enlightenment.”
― Naomi Alderman, Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

“Go and do it immediately.”
― Naomi Alderman, Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

“Christie had noticed that women, especially those in their later years who remained unmarried, were often patronised, overlooked and underestimated,”
― Naomi Alderman, Marple: Twelve New Mysteries