Theme:
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, explores the main themes of the novel is the morality of murder-is it all right to kill a man, even if law has acquitted him? Is it ever all right to kill a man? The novel suggests, at least by Poirot and the passenger’s standards, that murder is Ok under the right circumstances
Famous Quotes:
The body—the cage—is everything of the most respectable—but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.
The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.
If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.
I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.
I have learned to save myself useless emotion.
Some of us, in the words of the divine Greta Garbo, want to be alone.
How fast you go. You arrive at a conclusion much sooner than I would permit myself to do.
All these here are linked together – by death.
I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty—to one’s friends and one’s family and one’s caste.
The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
Because, you see, if the man were an invention—a fabrication—how much easier to make him disappear!
The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.
It was a woman. Only a woman would stab like that.
Women are like that. When they are enraged they have great strength.
A ridiculous-looking little man. The sort of little man one could never take seriously.
Say what you like, trial by jury is a sound system.
The little man removed his hat. What an egg-shaped head he had.
If you wish to catch a rabbit you put a ferret into the hole, and if the rabbit is there he runs.
If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it – often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
Literary awards:
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- CWA Best Ever Nominee for Crime Novel (2013)
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