Frases de Agatha Christie

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“Muito poucos de nós são o que parecemos.”

“O arqueólogo é o melhor marido que uma mulher pode ter; quanto mais velha ela fica, mais interesse ele tem por ela.”

“Um bom conselho será sempre ignorado, mas isso não é motivo para não dá-lo.”

“O segredo de ficar à frente é começar.”

“É um pensamento curioso, mas é só quando você vê pessoas parecendo ridículas que você percebe o quanto você as ama.”

“No que diz respeito às grandes somas, o mais recomendável é não confiar em ninguém.”

“O amor de mãe por seu filho é diferente de qualquer outra coisa no mundo. Ele não obedece lei ou piedade, ele ousa todas as coisas e extermina sem remorso tudo o que ficar em seu caminho.”

“As conversas são sempre perigosas quando se tem algo a ocultar.”

“O assassino costuma ser um antigo amigo da vítima.”

“Nada mais curioso do que os hábitos. Quase ninguém sabe que os tem.”

“Ganhar uma guerra é tão desastroso quanto perdê-la.”

“A natureza humana está cheia de incongruências.”

“A melhor hora para planejar um livro é enquanto lava-se a louça.”

“É preciso cometer os próprios erros”

“Os velhos pecados têm sombras grandes.”

“Eis a melhor receita para um romance policial: o detetive nunca deve saber mais que o leitor.”

“Os nossos passatempos e entretenimentos podem ser sintetizados numa só palavra: «coscuvilhice».”

“Mas não tão inteligente quanto Hercule Poirot!”

“Não acho que a necessidade é a mãe da invenção - uma invenção, na minha opinião, surge diretamente da indolência, possivelmente também da preguiça. Para poupar-se trabalho.”

“Minha mãe me sugeriu escrever um conto para remediar o tédio de uma convalescença e eu lhe disse que não sabia fazê-lo. Como você sabe isso se nunca tentou?, perguntou-me.”

“Interrogo-me muitas vezes porque motivo tem o mundo uma tendência tão grande para generalizar. As generalizações raramente ou quase nunca são verdadeiras e são muitas vezes totalmente inexactas.”

“Me especializei em assassinatos de interesse silencioso e familiar.”

“Eu gosto de viver. Já me senti ferozmente, desesperadamente, agudamente infeliz, dilacerada pelo sofrimento, mas através de tudo ainda sei, com absoluta certeza, que estar viva é sensacional.”

“A essência da vida é andar para a frente; sem possibilidade de fazer ou intentar marcha a trás. Na realidade, a vida é uma rua de sentido único.”

“Quando se quer apanhar um coelho, mete-se-lhe uma doninha na toca, e se o coelho lá estiver, foge. Foi tudo o que fiz.”

“Ele disse: 'A vida não pode realmente ser resolvida por máximas admiráveis tiradas da literatura moderna. Lembre-se de que a natureza tem os dentes e as garras rubros.”

““Tcha! Tcha! - exclamou Poirot, irritado. "Você discute como uma criança."”

“Para todo problema, existe uma solução mais simples.”

“Um homem fraco em um canto é mais perigoso que um homem forte. (Inspetor Miller)”

“Com maior percepção do caráter inglês, servi uma forte dose de uísque com soda e coloquei-a na frente do desditado inspetor.”

“Tivera sorte! Sorte e competência, naturalmente. Era um excelente profissional - mas isso não bastava para se ter sucesso. Era necessária alguma sorte também.”

“Então o senhor tem uma teoria?
—Um detetive, M. Martin, sempre tem uma teoria. É o que se espera dele. Pessoalmente, não chamo de teoria. Digo que é uma ideiazinha. Essa é a primeira fase.
—E a segunda?
—Se a ideiazinha for acertada, então eu sei! É bastante simples, como se vê.
—Gostaria que me dissesse qual é a sua teoria… ou ideiazinha.”

“E se você humilhar um ídolo, não resta mais nada.”

“Como seres humanos avessos jamais admitiram ignorância!”

“Alguém sabe tão pouco. Quando se sabe mais, é tarde demais.”

“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.”

““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.””

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

“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…”

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

“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.”

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

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

““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!””

“The rottenness comes from within.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Men always tell such silly lies.”

“"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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Harold Waring, like many other Englishmen, was a bad linguist.”

“"You know that in all tombs there is always a false door?"
Renisenb stared. "Yes, of course."
"Well, people are like that too. They create a false door - to deceive. If they are conscious of weakness, of inefficiency, they make an imposing door of self-assertion, of bluster, of overwhelming authority - and, after a time, they get to believe in it themselves. They think, and everybody thinks, that they are like that. But behind that door, Renisenb, is a bare rock … And so when reality comes and touches them with the feather of truth - their true self reasserts itself."”

“What beats me — it always does — is how a man can be so clever and yet be such a perfect fool.”

“Yes, a private investigator like my Wilbraham Rice. The public have taken very strongly to Wilbraham Rice. He bites his nails and eats a lot of bananas. I don’t know why I made him bite his nails to start with — it’s really rather disgusting — but there it is. He started by biting his nails, and now he has to do it in every single book. So monotonous.”

“Now there is no murder without a motive.”

““I — I don’t regret what I did. I think that you are a kind man, Mr. Poirot, and that possibly you might understand. You see, I’ve been so terribly afraid.”
“Afraid?”
“Yes, it’s difficult for a gentleman to understand, I expect. But you see, I’m not a clever woman at all, and I’ve no training and I’m getting older — and I’m so terrified for the future. I’ve not been able to save anything — how could I with Emily to be cared for? — and as I get older and more incompetent there won’t be any one who wants me. They’ll want somebody young and brisk. I’ve — I’ve known so many people like I am — nobody wants you and you live in a one room and you can’t have a fire or any warmth and not very much to eat and at last you can’t even pay the rent on your room … There are Institutions, of course, but it’s not very easy to get into them unless you have influential friends, and I haven’t. There are a good many others situated like I am — poor companions — untrained useless women with nothing to look forward to but a deadly fear…””

“I must have a talk with you, David, and learn all the new ideas. As far as I can see, one must hate everybody but at the same time give them free medical attention and a lot of extra education, poor things! All those helpless little children herded into schoolhouses every day — and cod liver oil forced down babies’ throats whether they like it or not — such nasty-smelling stuff.”

“What any woman saw in some particular man was beyond the comprehension of the average intelligent male. It just was so. A woman who could be intelligent about everything else in the world could be a complete fool when it came to some particular man.”

“Like most Englishmen, he felt something strongly, and proceeded to muddle around until he had, somehow or other, cleared up the mess.”

“Yes. I like to see people get angry. I like it very much. But here in England they do not get angry like they do in Spain. In Spain they take out their knives and they curse and shout. In England they do nothing, just get very red in the face and shut up their mouths tight.”