Hello. Here is a list of 13 quotes that I liked and saved while reading The Mysterious Affair at Styles book by Agatha Christie. I hope you will like them too. By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles Quotes
- You’re an old woman, Emily, and there’s no fool like an old fool. The man’s twenty years younger than you, and don’t you fool yourself as to what he married you for. Money! Well, don’t let him have too much of it. – Quote from The Mysterious Affair at Styles book by Agatha Christie
- Young man, trust me. I’ve lived in the world rather longer than you have. All I ask you is to keep your eyes open. You’ll see what I mean. – Quote from The Mysterious Affair at Styles book by Agatha Christie
- The mind is confused? Is it not so? Take time, mon ami. You are agitated; you are excited – it is but natural. Presently, when we are calmer, we will arrange the facts, neatly, each in his proper place. We will examine – and reject. Those of importance we will put on one side; those of no importance, pouf! – blow them away! – Quote from The Mysterious Affair at Styles book by Agatha Christie
- Beware! Peril to the detective who says: ‘It is so small – it does not matter. It will not agree. I will forget it.’ That way lies confusion! Everything matters. – Quote from The Mysterious Affair at Styles book by Agatha Christie
- I should like to see a good flare up. It would clear the air. At present we are all thinking so much, and saying so little. – Quote from The Mysterious Affair at Styles book by Agatha Christie
- You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely. – Quote from The Mysterious Affair at Styles book by Agatha Christie
- Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined – sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured – so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends. – Quote from The Mysterious Affair at Styles book by Agatha Christie
- It is always wise to suspect everybody until you can prove logically, and to your own satisfaction, that they are innocent. – Quote from The Mysterious Affair at Styles book by Agatha Christie
- Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored. – Quote from The Mysterious Affair at Styles book by Agatha Christie
- A tinge of Jewish blood is not a bad thing. It leavens the stolid stupidity of the ordinary Englishman. – Quote from The Mysterious Affair at Styles book by Agatha Christie
- Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend. You cannot mix up sentiment and reason. – Quote from The Mysterious Affair at Styles book by Agatha Christie
- It is one thing to know that a man is guilty, it is quite another matter to prove him so. And, in this case, there is terribly little evidence. That is the whole trouble. I, Hercule Poirot, know, but I lack the last link in my chain. – Quote from The Mysterious Affair at Styles book by Agatha Christie
- A man in love is a sorry spectacle. – Quote from The Mysterious Affair at Styles book by Agatha Christie