Theses quotes are from Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie a cozy mystery published in 1930 and the first novel of the elderly Spinster Miss Marple appears in as she was in a short story form 1926 called The Tuesday Murder club.
Quotes From Murder at the Vicarage
it is difficult to know where to begin this story, but i have fixed my choice one Certain Wednesday at a luncheon at the Vicerage.
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“The young people think the old people are fools — but the old people know the young people are fools.”
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
“At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.”
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
“Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can’t do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they’ve seen it often before.”
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
“It’s so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.”
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
“I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.”
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
“What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn’t be so busy looking for it in other people’s.”
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
“Was bad language used?” asked Colonel Melchett.
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
“It depends on what you call bad language.”
“Could you understand it?” I asked.
“Of course I could understand it.”
“Then it couldn’t have been bad language,” I said.
Mrs. Price Ridley looked at me suspiciously.
“A refined lady,” I explained, “is naturally unacquainted with bad language.”
“Inestimable harm may be done by foolish wagging of tongues in ill-natured gossip”
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
“I daresay idle tittle-tattle is very wrong and unkind, but it is so often true, isn’t it.”
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
“I use the word drifted advisedly. I have read novels in which young people are described as bursting with energy—joie de vivre, the magnificent vitality of youth … Personally, all the young people I come across have the air of animal wraiths.”
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
“The young have very curious views on unselfishness.”
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
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“Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.”
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
“I know that in books it is always the most unlikely person. But I never find that rule applies in real life. There it is so often the obvious that is true.”
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
“I had just finished carving some boiled beef (remarkably tough by the way) and on resuming my seat I remarked, in a spirit most unbecoming to my cloth, that anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe would be doing the world at large a service.”
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
“I’d rather have my job than yours.”
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
“Why?”
“Because your job deals very largely with what we call right and
wrong — and I’m not at all sure that there’s any such thing.
Suppose it’s all a question of glandular secretion. Too much of
one gland, too little of another — and you get your murderer,
your thief, your habitual criminal. Clement, I believe the time will
come when we’ll be horrified to think of the long centuries in
which we’ve indulged in what you may call moral reprobation, to
think how we’ve punished people for disease — which they can’t
help, poor devils. You don’t hang a man for having tuberculosis.”
“Nothing is more dangerous than the well-meant efforts of the younger generation to assist you and show their sympathy.”
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
“Mass emotion is a strange and terrible thing.”
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
“There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.”
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
Really miss Marple is rather a dear.
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