Detective stories Quote by Agatha Christie Download Open image ““Ah! Madame, I reserve the explanations for the last chapter.”” — Agatha Christie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Detective stories Meta
“Sometimes it is not until the Final Chapter that you realise what a quest has REALLY been about all along.” — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
“Lily told her about what had happened so far. (If you're interested, you can go back to the beginning of the book and read… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
“...if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I’m going to write the last chapter in his precious history. Right now.” — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I ask to sneak a closer look, skip to the final chapter of the book” — Indigo Girls Copy Share Image
“Once he'd asked, "Don't you want to read? There are hundreds of books in the sitting room." She had laughed and said, "I've read… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“But Lou Anne, she understood the point of the book before she even read it. The one who was missing the point this time… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“If this were a novel, you'd have to start a new chapter as soon as I appeared.” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Is your book interesting?' I had already formed the intention of asking her to lend it to me some day.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Your sister already did the 'villain explains it all' speech.I don't need another one.” — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Well what does it matter,' he muttered when he was out in the corridor. 'Who wants to know the end of a story in… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“I like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Now, as I expect you know, there is nothing more cruel than talk, and there is nothing more difficult to combat. When people say… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“A child says ‘Thank God for my good dinner’. What can I say at seventy-five? ‘Thank God for my good life, and for all… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid I always find Shakespeare terribly dreary. All those long scenes where everybody is drunk and it's supposed to be funny.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Either her dream had taken a very odd turn or else - or else Mary had really rushed into the room and had said… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend,” observed Poirot philosophically. “You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Well, of course, it was not any of my business but you get very queer glimpses of life sometimes, and you can't help speculating… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Mr. Satterthwaite looked cheered. Suddenly an idea struck him. His jaw fell. "My goodness," he cried, "I've only just realized it! That rascal, with… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“The old gentleman refuses to have the telephone which he regards as a device of the devil, and on a par with radio, television,… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“That’s how they do it, these girls! Othello charmed Desdemona by telling her stories, but, oh, didn’t Desdemona charm Othello by the way she… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
I don’t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a detective and… — Mary Lavin Copy Share Image
I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
“Do you mean to tell me, Superintendent, that this is one of those damned cases you get in detective stories where a man is… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would be enough… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
I read a lot of detective stories because they always deliver. They give you a beginning, a middle, and an end - a resolution.… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get published. The… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I believe there's a landscape that exists underneath everything that we can see in present-day stuff. And I think that makes life kind of… — Stephen Hopkins Copy Share Image
When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
