Endless Night Agatha Christie Quotes

The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

I suppose what I really am is restless. I want to go everywhere, see everything, do everything. I want to find something. Yes, that's it, I want to find something.

Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.

One of the oddest things in life I think is the things one remembers.

I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right.

Tea's a thing that need never be finished.

There's a saying by some great writer or other that no man is a hero to his valet. Perhaps everyone ought to have a valet.

Most of the rich people I've known have been fairly miserable.

Go away where you're loved and taken care of and looked after.

Born poor doesn't mean you've got to stay poor. Money's queer. It goes where it's wanted.

She'd never stopped for a moment wanting me to be different but her wishes were never going to come true.

When youth begins to pass, fun isn't fun any longer.

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Oh no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.

That rebellion of mine was an important turning point in my life.

Faces are tricky unless you can connect up when and where you'd seen them.

In the end is my beginning… That’s a quotation I’ve often heard people say.

One doesn't want to die young. Sometimes one has to.

It wasn't what you were born to, and no good comes from getting out of your station in life.

She's a gipsy really. That's why she can't stay in houses. She wanders away and comes back again.

Nobody shall drive us away,” I said. “We're going to be happy here.” We said it like a challenge to fate.

My whole belief in life was based on the fact that [she] loved me.

I've been in love once and if I felt it coming on again I tell you I'd emigrate.

It's second nature to make the best of yourself.

But who thinks of death in the middle of life?" -Mike Rogers Endless Night by Agatha Christie

Surely, I thought, in a world where man has been able to put satellites in the sky and where men talk big about visiting the stars, there must be something that rouses you, that makes your heart beat, that’s worthwhile searching all over the world to find!

The house only isn't enough, you see. It has to have the setting. That's just as important. It's like a ruby or an emerald. A beautiful stone is only a beautiful stone. It doesn't lead you anywhere further. It doesn't mean anything, it has no form or significance until it has its setting. And the setting has to have a beautiful jewel to be worthy of it. I take the setting, you see, out of the landscape, where it exists only in its own right. It has no meaning until there is my house sitting proudly like a jewel within its grasp.

Il guaio, con me, era che avevo voluto sempre troppe cose, e le avevo volute con avidità e senza essere disposto a rinunciare a niente.

I refuse to have my character improved.

I don’t like clever girls," I said. "And I don't like tall blonde girls. I like small girls with hair like autumn leaves.

One of the oddest things in life, I think, is the things one remembers. One chooses to remember, I suppose. Something in one must choose.

You're looking at me as though you loved me...

The world is a very evil place . - Andrew Lippincott

A beautiful stone is only a beautiful stone. It doesn't lead you anywhere. It doesn't mean anything, it has no form or significance until is has its setting. And the setting has to have a beautiful jewel to be worthy of it.

Arrangements. I remember his using the word arrangements. What a hateful word it is and all the things it stands for. The things in life that have grand words - Love - sex - life - death - hate - those aren't the things that govern existence at all. It's lots of other pettifogging, degrading things. Things you have to endure, things you never think about until they happen to you. Undertakers, arrangements for funerals, inquests. And servants coming into rooms and pulling the blinds down. Why should blinds be pulled down because Ellie was dead? Of all the stupid things!

Greta avevo capito com'ero fatto fin dal primo momento in cui mi aveva conosciuto. Non avevamo mai nutrito stupide illusioni l'uno sul conto dell'altra. Lei aveva il mio stesso tipo di mentalità, desiderava le stesse cose che desideravo io. Volevamo il Mondo, e non ci saremmo accontentati d'altro. Volevamo tutto ciò che la vita poteva offrirci. Volevamo soddisfare qualunque ambizione. Volevamo avere tutto, non volevamo negarci niente.

and endless inconvenience. But have I not heard you say often that to solve a case a man has only to lie back in his chair and think? Do that. Interview the passengers on the train, view the body, examine what clues there are and then—well, I have faith in you! I am assured that it is no idle boast of yours. Lie back and think—use (as I have heard you say so often) the little grey cells of the mind—and you will know!” He leaned forward, looking affectionately at his friend. “Your faith touches me, my friend,” said Poirot emotionally. “As you say, this cannot be a difficult case. I myself, last night—but we will not speak of that now. In truth, this problem intrigues me. I was reflecting, not half an hour ago, that many hours of boredom lay ahead whilst we are stuck here. And now—a problem lies ready to my hand.” “You accept then?” said M. Bouc eagerly. “C’est entendu. You place the matter in my hands.” “Good—we are all at your service.” “To begin with, I should like a plan of the Istanbul-Calais coach, with a note of the people who occupied the several compartments, and I should also like to see their passports and their tickets.” “Michel will get you those.” The Wagon Lit conductor left the compartment. “What other passengers are there on the train?” asked Poirot. “In this coach Dr. Constantine and I

not for any consideration! You can be quite sure of that.

I didn’t want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing, that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.

I mounted her and she went off riding through the trees.

It's second nature to make the best of yourself. I'd made a point of that at school and onwards, boasted about things a bit, said a few things stretching the truth a bit I wasn't ashamed of it. Uriah something his name was, always going about being humble and rubbing his hands, and actually planning and scheming behind that humility. I didn't want to be like that." -Mike Rogers Endless Night by Agatha Christie

Öleceğini bilmek seni özgürleştiriyor, artık ne yaparsan yap önemli değil, çünkü ölüm kapıda seni beklemekte.Ne istersen yapabilirsin.Sana engel olacak,seni durduracak hiçbir şey yoktur.

In my end is my beginning … That’s a quotation I’ve often heard people say. It sounds all right—but what does it really mean?

no man is a hero to his valet.

The more I thought about myself, the more interesting I thought it would be to everybody. Because I was interesting. I was a really interesting person and I'd done interesting things.

What a mysterious thing sleep is. You go to bed worrying about gipsies and secret enemies and detectives planted in your house and the possibilities of kidnapping and a hundred other things, and sleep whisks you away from it all. You travel very far and you don’t know where you’ve been, but when you wake up, it’s a totally new world. No worries, no apprehensions. Instead, when I woke up on the 17th September, I was in a mood of boisterous excitement.

I think your stepmother Cora is a double-faced bitch if ever I knew one. Sorry, Ellie, perhaps I oughtn't to say that.

Her life was as different from mine as chalk from cheese. In a way, it was fascinating to hear about it, but it sounded stultifying to me.

Seakan-akan kau benar-benar mencintaiku.

One doesn't recognize in one's life the really important moments - not until it's too late.

It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to!

I don't know what good ambition's ever done to anybody. It's the kind of thing that turns to dead sea fruit in your mouth.

but you see we've got to lead a queer life together, you and I. It's not going to be the life that you've led and it's not going to be the life that I've led either.

Oh no, I’m not brave. When a thing is certain there’s nothing to be brave about.

That’s the one thing I always know. What people are after and what they want.

Born poor doesn’t mean you’ve got to stay poor. Money’s queer. It goes where it’s wanted.

A goose is walking over your grave. That’s the real saying, isn’t it?’ said Ellie.

I’ve got to get through this. I’ve got to get through this—and then.

Born poor doesn’t mean you’ve got to stay poor. Money’s queer. It goes where it’s wanted. - Santonix

Where large sums of money are concerned it is advisable to trust nobody . - Andrew Lippincott