Agatha-christie Quote by Agatha Christie

“You speak of my manner to you being insulting. Well, once or twice, your manner has annoyed me " "I am enchanted to hear…

— Agatha Christie

“In fact,' said Poirot, 'she stabbed him in the dark, not realising that he was dead already, but somehow deduced that he had a…

— Agatha Christie

“Who is this pompous hobgoblin? His jaw had grown square, his belly had gone soft. He was parading like a dictator in jockey shorts…

— Genie Frisbee

“He did not know the methods of Hercule Poirot. I do not run to and fro, making journeys, and agitating myself. My work is…

— Agatha Christie

“The inventor of [this saying, 'That Enough Is As Good As a Feast'] did not believe it himself…Goodly legs and shoulders of mutton, exhilarating…

— Charles Lamb

“Quite possibly, in those days, when his temper was more liable to explode into a spot of boots and fists, he might have helped…

— Terry Pratchett

“Hugh concentrated upon different objects in the camión; the driver’s small mirror with the legend running round it—Cooperación de la Cruz Roja, the three…

— Malcolm Lowry

“For a few moments, raising his arms desperately, the Reverend Mouret implored Heaven. His shoulder-blades cracked, with such fantastic force did he pray. But…

— Émile Zola

“At this Bagatur hurled himself to the floor, prostrated himself, and began to pray, a high-pitched babble of pleading. It wasn’t English. He was…

— Mar Preston

“There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millett's”

— Half Man Half Biscuit

“He sat the silver disk between Poocher's shoulder blades. The pig turned around in a circle, as if he were trying to see the…

— James Maxey

“All in all, it was the goldarndest, Barnum-and-Baileyest, rib-stickinest, rough-and-tumblest infernal foofaraw of a media circus anybody had seen since grandpaw chased the possum…

— John Varley