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Quotes from Murder on the Orient Express — Agatha Christie

1890–1976

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The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

Précisément! The body — the cage — is everything of the most respectable — but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.

Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, they usually admit it — often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.

Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

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

Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

Tout de même, it is not necessary that he should be killed on the Orient Express. There are other places.

Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

Mon ami, if you wish to catch a rabbit you put a ferret into the hole, and if the rabbit is there he runs. That is all I have done.

Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

“I like to see an angry Englishman,” said Poirot. “They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.”

Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

From a distance he had the bland aspect of a philanthropist.

Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

“Me, I am convinced it is the truth,” said M. Bouc, becoming more and more enamoured of his theory.

Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

See you, my dear doctor, me, I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.

Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

“Do you always travel first-class, Mr. Hardman?”
“Yes, sir. The firm pays my travelling expenses.”
He winked.

Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

Exactly! It is absurd — improbable — it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! one cannot escape from the facts.

Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

It was abominable — wicked. The good God should not allow such things. We are not so wicked as that in Germany.

Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Agatha Christie (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.