Agatha Christie

скорее убью тебя, чем отдам другой женщине…

You cannot have a murder without a motive.

A woman cannot wait—always remember that, Hastings.”

I do not run to and fro, making journeys, and agitating myself. My work is done from within—here—”

changed greatly of late

“Man is a vain animal.

Man is an unoriginal animal. Unoriginal within the law in his daily respectable life, equally unoriginal outside the law.

A man tells to his mistress what he does not always tell to his wife.”

“Your idea of a woman is some one who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse.

veiled hos­til­ity