The Moving Finger

Agatha Christie

Top 10 Best Quotes

“There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.”

“In everybody's life there are hidden chapters which they hope may never be known.”

“Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?”

“There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.”

“I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.”

“Yes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an important fellow creature's life is at stake. You understand me?”

“A man travels fastest who travels alone.”

“If suicide is your idea of escape from trouble then it doesn't very much matter what the trouble is.”

“How strange that a girl could trouble your inmost soul so long as she kept her mouth shut, and that the moment she spoke the glamour could vanish as though it had never been.”

“From all I have heard, geniuses are people to be heartily disliked.”

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