A Caribbean Mystery Quotes

“Conversations are always dangerous, if you have something to hide.”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“The truth is, that one doesn't really know anything about anybody. Not even the people who are nearest to you...'
'Isn't that going a little too far--exaggerating too much?'
'I don't think it is. When you think of people, it is in the image you have made of them for yourself.”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“It's all very well to talk like that,” said Mr. Rafiel. “We, you say? What do you think I can do about it? I can't even walk without help. How can you and I set about preventing a murder? You're about a hundred and I'm a broken-up old crock.”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“He had had a lonely life and a lonely death. But it had been the kind of loneliness that spends itself in living amongst people, and in passing the time that way not unpleasantly. Major Palgrave might have been a lonely man, he had also been quite a cheerful one.”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“The truth must be quite plain, if one could just clear away the litter.”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“They found he’d had a lethal dose of something that only a doctor could pronounce properly. As far as I remember it sounds vaguely like di-flor, hexagonal-ethylcarbenzol. That’s not the right name. But that’s roughly what it sounds like.”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“Modern novels. So difficult—all about such unpleasant people, doing such very odd things and not, apparently, even enjoying them. “Sex” as a word had not been mentioned in Miss Marple’s young days; but there had been plenty of it—not talked about so much—but enjoyed far more than nowadays, or so it seemed to her. Though usually labelled Sin, she couldn’t help feeling that that was preferable to what it seemed to be nowadays—a kind of Duty.”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“People bicker so and have such rows. Even if they're fond of each other, they still seem to have rows and not to mind a bit whether they have them in public or not.”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“Yes, it’s horrid having a death here. It makes everyone depressed. Of course—he was quite old.” “He seemed quite well and cheerful yesterday,” said Miss Marple, slightly resenting this calm assumption that everyone of advanced years was liable to die at any minute.”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“But it wasn’t really scandals Miss Marple wanted. Nothing to get your teeth into in scandals nowadays. Just men and women changing partners, and calling attention to it, instead of trying decently to hush it up and be properly ashamed of themselves.”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“Like many old people she slept lightly and had periods of wakefulness which she used for the planning of some action or actions to be carried out on the next or following days.”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“IF anybody had been there to observe the gentle-looking elderly
lady who stood meditatively on the loggia outside her bungalow,
they would have thought she had nothing more on her mind than
deliberation on how to arrange her time that day. An expedition, perhaps, to Castle Cliff; a visit to Jamestown; a nice drive and
lunch at Pelican Point_ or just a quiet morning on the beach.
But the gentle old lady was deliberating quite other matters. She
was in a militant mood.”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“Married a man who wasn’t much good. I’d say she never had much judgment when it came to men. Some women haven’t. They fall for anyone who tells them a hard-luck story. Always convinced that all the man needs is proper female understanding. That, once married to her, he’ll pull up his socks and make a go of life! But of course that type of man never does.”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“He had had a lonely life and a lonely death. But it had been the kind of loneliness that spends itself in living amongst people, and in passing the time that way not unpleasantly.”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“How wonderful science is nowadays,” said Miss Marple. “Doctors can do so much, can’t they?” “We all have one great competitor,” said Dr. Graham. “Nature, you know. And some of the good old-fashioned home remedies come back from time to time.”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“He had high blood pressure,” said Molly. “But surely there are things one takes nowadays—some kind of pill. Science is so wonderful.”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“The weather was always the same—fine. No interesting variations. “The many-splendoured weather of an English day,” she”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“Miss Marple had her breakfast brought to her in bed as usual. Tea, a boiled egg, and a slice of pawpaw.”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“There was a gay family from Caracas complete with children.”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“How can you and I set about preventing a murder? You're about a hundred and I'm a broken-up old crock.”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“Ave Caesar, nos morituri te salutamus,”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“Miss Marple was also present. As usual she sat and knitted and listened to what went on, and very occasionally joined in the conversation. When she did so, everyone was surprised because they had usually forgotten that she was there! Evelyn Hillingdon looked at her indulgently, and thought that she was a nice old pussy.”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“Життя видається найцікавішим саме тоді, коли ви можете втратити його.”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“Conversas são sempre perigosas, se temos algo a esconder.”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“Fortunately at Miss Marple’s age, there was always some ailment that could be discussed with slight exaggerations on the patient’s part. Miss Marple hesitated between “her shoulder” and “her knee,” but finally decided upon the knee. Miss Marple’s knee, as she would have put it to herself, was always with her.”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“But where was youth? Studying, she supposed, at universities, or doing a job—with a fortnight’s holiday a year. A place like this was too far away and too expensive. This gay and carefree life was all for the thirties and the forties—and the old men who were trying to live up (or down) to their young wives. It seemed, somehow, a pity.”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“Her nephew had once compared life in St. Mary Mead to scum on a pond, and she had indignantly pointed out that smeared on a slide under the microscope there would be plenty of life to be observed. Yes, indeed, in St. Mary Mead, there was always something going on.”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“The truth is,” said Evelyn, “that one doesn’t really know anything about anybody.” She added, “Not even the people who are nearest to you….” “Isn’t that going a little too far, Evelyn—exaggerating too much?” “I don’t think it is. When you think of people, it is in the image you have made of them for yourself.” “I know you,” said Edward Hillingdon quietly. “You think you do.”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“I tell you he brought bad luck—I say it is the Evil Eye he had.” Her hand shot out again in the well-known Latin gesture—the first finger and the little finger sticking out, the two middle ones doubled in.”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery