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The murder of Roger Ackroyd quotes
10 quotes from The murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie. Source: Project Gutenberg e-text #69087 (public domain in the USA), the text this site’s reader shows. Each quote is copied exactly from that text and links to its passage in the reader; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against the reader’s text.
Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to the seeker after it.
— Poirot · XII. ROUND THE TABLE
Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing that they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together—and they call the result intuition.
— Spoken by a character · XIII. THE GOOSE QUILL
Every new development that arises is like the shake you give to a kaleidoscope—the thing changes entirely in aspect.
— Spoken by a character · XX. MISS RUSSELL
Fortunately words, ingeniously used, will serve to mask the ugliness of naked facts.
Everything is simple, if you arrange the facts methodically.
— Spoken by a character · VII. I LEARN MY NEIGHBOR’S PROFESSION
The chains of habit. We work to attain an object, and the object gained, we find that what we miss is the daily toil.
— Spoken by a character · III. THE MAN WHO GREW VEGETABLE MARROWS
What one does not tell to Papa Poirot he finds out.
— Spoken by a character · XIX. FLORA ACKROYD
It is well at any price to have peace in the home.
“Oh! money! All the troubles in the world can be put down to money—or the lack of it.”
— Spoken by a character · X. THE PARLORMAID
“Never worry about what you say to a man. They’re so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it’s unflattering.”
— Caroline · XXII. URSULA’S STORY