Crime Quotations Flashcards
Chapter 1: Gender Stereotypes
Surely if a woman committed a crime like murder…
she’d be sufficiently cold-blooded…’
-Sheppard
Chapter 1: Secrets
Therefore I have got into the habit of…
continually withholding all information possible from my sister
–Sheppard
Chapter 2: Detective Process
Then I suddenly remembered…
that I had seen her…
-Sheppard
Chapter 2: Clues & Red Herrings
But, strangely enough,
she didn’t seem interested in veronal.
– Sheppard about Miss Russell
Chapter 3: Gender Stereotypes
A man who is capable of shutting up Caroline and
sending her, like the Queen of Sheba, empty away…
must be something of a personality.
-Sheppard
Chapter 3: Motive
‘I shall be a very rich man…
when the old fellow pops off.’
– Ralph
Chapter 3: Secrets
‘One prefers…
to remain incognito’
-Poirot
Chapter 3: Clues & Red Herrings
Then she declined…
the tempting red herring.
-Sheppard about Caroline
Chapter 3: Suspects
He was silent a minute and then repeated in a slightly different tone of voice:..
‘Yes - I’ve got to play a lone hand…’
– Ralph
Chapter 4: Detective Process
Then I lifted the lid…
to scrutinize the contents more closely.
-Sheppard
Chapter 4: Gender Stereotypes
A simple…
straightforward English girl.
-Sheppard about Flora
Chapter 4: Secrets
‘It was meant for…
my eyes, and my eyes only.’
– Ackroyd
Chapter 4: Suspects
He looked embarrassed…
and it occurred to me that he might have been listening at the door.
–Sheppard about Parker
Chapter 5: Detective Process
‘No, thanks…
I’ll do my own inquiring.’
– the inspector
Chapter 5: Gender Stereotypes
Flora raised her hand to her throat,…
gave a little cry, and I hurried to catch her as she fell.
Chapter 5: Clues & Red Herrings
‘A demand for money,’ said the inspector musingly…
‘It may be that here we have a very important clue.’
-the inspector
Chapter 5: Victims
His head had fallen sideways, and clearly visible, just below the collar of his coat,…
was a shining piece of twisted metalwork.
– about Ackroyd
Chapter 6: Gender Stereotypes
‘How’s the…
‘How’s the young lady, doctor?’
– about Flora
Chapter 6: Suspects
‘When I began to question him, he got the wind up, and…
plumped out some garbled story of blackmail.’
– Inspector Davis about Parker
Chapter 7: Detective Process
‘Everything is simple,…
if you arrange the facts methodically’
– Poirot
Chapter 7: Secrecy
‘Everyone concerned in them…
has something to hide.’
– Poirot
Chapter 8: Clues & Red Herrings
An opened window,’ he said. ‘A locked door. A chair that apparently moved itself…
To all three I say “Why?” and I find no answer.’
– Poirot
Chapter 8: Suspects
‘A very foolish young man. Captain Ralph Paton,’ said Poirot thoughtfully…
‘To leave so much evidence of his presence.’
-Poirot
Chapter 9: Motive
‘Uncle Roger has left me twenty thousand pounds…
Think of it - twenty thousand
beautiful pounds.’
– Flora
Chapter 9: Secrecy
‘Do you tell your patients everything - but everything, doctor?…
I think not.’
– Poirot
Chapter 10: Gender Stereotypes
‘But we took it for granted, Ackroyd and I,…
that it was a man’
– Sheppard
Chapter 10: Motive
‘I confess…
I can see no motive for her doing so.’
– Poirot about Ursula
Chapter 10: Suspects
‘My friend, everything points to the
assumption that…
he is guilty.’
– Poirot about Ralph
