Agatha Christie: Frases en inglés

Agatha Christie era escritora inglesa. Frases en inglés.
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“I don't think I shall ever forget my first sight of Hercule Poirot. Of course, I got used to him later on, but to begin with it was a shock, and I think everyone else must have felt the same! I don't know what I'd imagined — something like Sherlock Holmes — […] Of course, I knew he was a foreigner, but I hadn't expected him to be quite as foreign as he was, if you know what I mean. When you saw him you just wanted to laugh! He was like something on the stage or at the pictures. […] He looked like a hairdresser in a comic play!”

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Agatha Christie libro Murder in Mesopotamia

Amy Leatheran
Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)

“And Mr. Burnaby said acutely: "Well, it doesn't seem to have done her much good, poor lass." But after a while they stopped talking about her and discussed instead who was going to win the Grand National. For, as Mr. Ferguson was saying at that minute in Luxor, it is not the past that matters but the future.”

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Agatha Christie libro Death on the Nile

Death on the Nile (1937)

““This affair must all be unravelled from within.” He tapped his forehead. “These little grey cells. It is ‘up to them’ — as you say over here.””

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Agatha Christie libro The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Hercule Poirot
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)

“It’s not impossible my dear. It’s just a very remarkable coincidence — and remarkable coincidences do happen.”

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Agatha Christie libro Sleeping Murder

Sleeping Murder (1976)

“I agree with you. It is here a family affair. It is a poison that works in the blood — it is intimate — it is deep-seated. There is here, I think, hate and knowledge…”

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Agatha Christie

Murder for Christmas (1939, Holiday for Murder, Hercule Poirot’s Christmas)

“Tout de même,” said Poirot, “since I cannot find anything, eh bien, then the logic falls out of the window.”

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Agatha Christie libro Third Girl

Third Girl (1966)

“Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.”

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Agatha Christie libro After the Funeral

After the Funeral (1953)

“I have often noticed that being a devoted wife saps the intellect,’ murmured Tommy.”

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Agatha Christie libro N or M?

N or M? (1941)

“She shrugged her shoulders slightly.
“What can one do?”
“You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.””

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Agatha Christie libro Asesinato en el Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

““You have been to the Riviera before, Georges?” said Poirot to his valet the following morning.
George was an intensely English, rather wooden-faced individual.
“Yes, sir. I was here two years ago when I was in the service of Lord Edward Frampton.”
“And to-day,” murmured his master, “you are here with Hercule Poirot. How one mounts in the world!””

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Agatha Christie libro El misterio del tren azul

The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)

“The rottenness comes from within.”

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(1945)

“I don't pretend to be an author or to know anything about writing. I'm doing this simply because Dr Reilly asked me to, and somehow when Dr Reilly asks you to do a thing you don't like to refuse.”

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Agatha Christie libro Murder in Mesopotamia

Amy Leatheran
Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)

“It shows you, Madame, the dangers of conversation. 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.”

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Agatha Christie libro After the Funeral

After the Funeral (1953)

“I am not keeping back facts. Every fact that I know is in your possession. You can draw your own deductions from them.”

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Agatha Christie libro The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Hercule Poirot
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)

“Murder isn’t — it really isn’t — a thing to tamper with lightheartedly.”

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Agatha Christie libro Sleeping Murder

Sleeping Murder (1976)

““It makes me madder than a hornet to be disbelieved,” she explained.”

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Agatha Christie libro Asesinato en el Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

“Men always tell such silly lies.”

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Agatha Christie libro After the Funeral

After the Funeral (1953)

“"I have made my choice, Hori. I will share my life with you for good or evil, until death comes…" With his arms round her, with the sudden new sweetness of his face against hers, she was filled with an exultant richness of living.”

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(1945)

“They have, all of them, such wonderful good manners. Not taught good manners — the natural thing. I could never have believed till I came here that natural courtesy could be such a wonderful — such a positive thing.”

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Agatha Christie libro The Burden

The Burden (1956)

“I think perhaps it wasn’t a good idea to read aloud Gibbon to me in the evenings, because if it’s nice and hot by the fire, there’s something about Gibbon that does, rather, make you go to sleep.”

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Agatha Christie

A Murder is Announced (1950)