The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side Quotes

“Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“Heather Badcock meant no harm. She never did mean harm, but there is no doubt that people like Heather Badcock (and like my old friend Alison Wilde), are capable of doing a lot of harm because they lack - not kindness, they have kindness - but any real consideration for the way their actions may affect other people. She though always of what an action meant to her, never sparing a thought to what it might mean to somebody else.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“She had a great power of love and hate but no stability. That’s what’s so sad for anyone, to be born with no stability.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“One has to dare if one wants to get anywhere,' said Mrs. Bantry.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“Do you remember the Lady of Shalott? The mirror crack’d from side to side: ‘The doom has come upon me,’ cried the Lady of Shalott. Well, that’s what she looked like. People laugh at Tennyson nowadays, but the Lady of Shalott always thrilled me when I was young and it still does.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“Murder develops. Yes, like a photograph, isn’t it?” “It’s very much like photography really,” said Dermot. “Quite a good comparison of yours.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“Such a sweet letter from Lady Conway... You remember my telling you about her? Her memory's bad. Can't recognize her relations always and tells them to go away."
"That might be shrewdness really," said Miss Marple, "rather than a loss of memory.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“If you look into somebody's soul by accident, you feel a bit embarrassed about cashing in.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“The trouble with her is that either she thinks that at last she's got to that spot or place or that moment in her life where everything's like a fairy tale come true, that nothing can go wrong, that she'll never be unhappy again; or else she's down in the dumps, a woman whose life is ruined, who's never known love and happiness and who never will again.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“She couldn't let the past go and she could never see the future as it really was, only as she imagined it to be.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“Miss Marple made a ladylike noise of vexation like a cat sneezing to indicate profound disgust.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“Hemlock in the cocktails, wasn't it? Something of that kind.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“In my experience, bossy women seldom get themselves murdered. I can't think why not. When you come to think of it, it's rather a pity.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“You’re always surprising me,” she said. “The things you take an interest in.”
“I take an interest in everything,” said Miss Marple.
“I mean taking up new subjects at your age.”
Miss Marple shook her head. “They aren’t really new subjects. It’s human nature I’m interested in, you know, and human nature is much the same whether it’s film stars or hospital nurses or people in St. Mary Mead or,” she added thoughtfully, “people who live in the Development.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“Murder develops. Yes, like a photograph, isn't it?”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“Miss Marple made the kind of noise that would once have been written down as 'tut-tut'.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“Evidence of identification was given by the husband, and the only other evidence was medical. Heather Badcock had died as a result of four grains of hy-ethyl-dexyl-barbo-quinde-lorytate, or, let us be frank, some such name.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“After you’ve fallen in love with a man and married him and got used to his ways and settled down comfortably—to go and throw it all up and start again! It seems to me madness.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“It seems to me you’re turning into a regular old fussbudget,” said Miss Marple unkindly.
“And don’t call me names!” said Dr. Haydock. “You’re a very healthy woman for your age; you were pulled down a bit by bronchitis which isn’t good for the elderly. But to stay alone in a house at your age is a risk. Supposing you fall down the stairs one evening or fall out of bed or slip in the bath. There you’d lie and nobody’d know about it.”
“One can imagine anything,” said Miss Marple. “Miss Knight might fall down the stairs and i’d fall over her rushing out to see what had happened.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“Люди не такі вже й дурні... А надто в селах (міс Марпл)

Розділ третій”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“Матері виходили на ґанки своїх осель і кликали дітей, що, як і завжди, вичворяли все те, що їм заборонено вичворяти. «Діти ніде й ніколи не змінюються»- подумала міс Марпл

Розділ другий”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“... належить до тих людей, які завжди думають, що знайшли те, чого бажає їхнє серце. А проте життя складніше... (Елла Зілінські)”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“Вона хоче почуватися щасливою, а зробити людину щасливою дуже й дуже нелегко. Хіба що вона - Елла Зілінські завагалася

- Хіба що вона сама захоче бути щасливою - продовжила її думку місіс Бентрі”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“Деякі люди... страшенно полюбляють почувати себе нещасними (Місіс Бентрі)”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“Ну, знаєте Н дала волю своєму язику, як то роблять люди, коли зустрічаються зі знаменитостями. Мовляв, як це чудово і яке вони переживають хвилювання, адже вони завжди мріяли про зустріч із ними (місіс Бентрі)”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“...ніщо так не лікує людину, як інтерес до життя (Лікар Гейдок)

II. Розділ шостий”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“Я переконана, що не тільки актриси та кінозірки, а й звичайні люди не люблять, коли їм нагадують про їхній вік (Місіс Бентрі)

II. Розділ шостий”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“Але дуже й дуже нелегко знову й знову говорити одне й те саме людям, які говорять одне й те саме тобі (Марина Ґреґ)

III . Розділ тринадцятий”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“Люди здебільшого уявляють собі голівудських зірок на березі басейну, де вони засмагають на сонці...”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side