#mystery

“Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness. "Letter to Mr. B”

“It is with literature as with law or empire”

“Sonnet. To Science”

“And the cloud that took the form (When the rest of Heaven was blue) Of a demon in my view. "Alone", l. 20”

“From childhood's hour I have not been As others were”

“Years of love have been forgot In the hatred of a minute. To M”

“Sound loves to revel in a summer night. Al Aaraaf (1829).”

“The happiest day”

“O, human love! thou spirit given, On Earth, of all we hope in Heaven! " Tamerlane ", l. 177 (1884).”

“A dark unfathom'd tide Of interminable pride”

“At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non”

“What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half”

“I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.”

“What I hope is that, when the whole district is full of these little rifle clubs, we may then get a central range to which they could all adjourn. Bisley is very useful to men of means, but to the ordinary civilian rifleman it might as well be in the moon. We must have local ranges if the men are really to get the good of them. "A British Commando", The Strand Magazine (June 1901), referencing the NRA Headquarters at Bisley, Surrey and Conan”

“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought. The White Company”

“I can tell you that it is no game for children, and I will confess that, in spite of my nine campaigns, I felt myself turn pale when the first ball flashed past me. (Of cricket) Adventures of Gerard”

“The whole doctrine of original sin, the Fall, the vicarious atonement , the placation of the Almighty by blood”

“Testimony of an Enthusiast”

“These pictures are not occult, but they are psychic because everything that emanates from the human spirit or human brain is psychic. It is not supernatural; nothing is. It is preternatural in the sense that it is not known to our ordinary senses. It is the effect of the joining on the one hand of imagination, and on the other hand of some power of materialization. The imagination, I may say, comes from me”

“The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half”

“cried Poirot irritably.”

“Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory”

“You give too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”

“Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.”

“Poirot shook his forefinger so fiercely at me that I quailed before it.”

“The fellow is an absolute outsider, anyone can see that. He's got a great black beard, and wears patent leather boots in all weathers!”

“The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as “The Styles Case” has now somewhat subsided. Nevertheless, in view of the world”

“I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest. LIFE magazine”

“Oh dear, I never realized what a terrible lot of explaining one has to do in a murder! Spider's Web”

“I have given them life instead of death , freedom instead of the cords of superstition , beauty and truth instead of corruption and exploitation . The old bad days are over for them, the Light of the Aton has risen, and they can dwell in peace and harmony freed from the shadow of fear and oppression . Akhenaten , as portrayed in Akhnaton (1937); Christie later revised the play slightly in 1972, and it was published in 1973.”