Agatha Christie

скорее убью тебя, чем отдам другой женщине…

You cannot have a murder without a motive.

“Man is a vain animal.

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

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

Man is an unoriginal animal.

“Mon ami, you must make your own deductions. You have ‘access to the facts!’ Concentrate your grey cells.

Sometimes for herself, usually for the man she loves, always for her children.

A good intelligence—and so deplorably lacking in method. There is an exercise most excellent for the development of the little grey cells. I will impart it to you—”

veiled hos­til­ity