After the Funeral
Agatha Christie
Top 10 Best Quotes
“For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away …”
“Yes, yes-you will give him the earth-because you love him. Love him too much for safety or for happiness. But you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.”
“It is a profound belief of mine that if you can induce a person to talk to you for long enough, on any subject whatever! sooner or later they will give themselves away.”
“To see ourselves as others see us!”
“I may," said Poirot in a completely unconvinced tone, "be wrong." Morton smiled. "But that doesn't often happen to you?" "No. Though I will admit - yes, I am forced to admit - that it has happened to me." "I must say I'm glad to hear it! To be always right must be sometimes monotonous." "I do not find it so," Poirot assured him.”
“the world is full of the young – or even the middle-aged – who wait, patiently or impatiently, for the death of someone whose decease will give them if not affluence – then opportunity”
“The very simple-minded have often the genius to commit an uncomplicated crime and then leave it alone.”
“I am in my own line a celebrated person—I may say a most celebrated person. My gifts, in fact, are unequalled!”
“Funerals are absolutely fatal for a man of your age.”
“But if I am right,” thought Poirot, “and after all, it is natural to me to be right”
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celebrity, us, perception, truth, pride
