And Then There Were None Quotes
"She wanted to spend some months there free from all publicity!"
"This was business. He'd got to keep his mind on the job."
"The sea—So peaceful today—sometimes so cruel…"
"One's past is what one is. It's the only way by which people should be judged."
"But I'm lucky to have even this. After all, people don't like a Coroner's Inquest, even if the Coroner did acquit me of all blame!"
"The amount of cars crawling about the roads is frightful."
"Watch and pray. The day of judgment is at hand."
"The whole thing is preposterous—preposterous! Slinging accusations about like this!"
"That is exactly what we must go into very carefully."
"Cat’s out of the bag, it seems. I suppose I’d better admit that my name isn’t Davis."
"I’ve no doubt in my own mind that we have been invited here by a madman—probably a dangerous homicidal lunatic."
"Our unknown friend accuses me of the murder of one Edward Seton. I did my duty and nothing more."
"I was nursery governess to him. It wasn’t my fault. At the inquest the Coroner exonerated me."
"We’re counting on the motor-boat to take us off the island. That’s the meaning of the whole business. We’re not going to leave the island…None of us will ever leave…It’s the end, you see—the end of everything…"
"Everything goes to support the idea. The way the woman fainted. And the man dropped the coffee tray, remember."
"I remember a text that hung in my nursery as a child. 'Be sure thy sin will find thee out.' It’s very true, that."
"Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet unassuming people. Delightful fellows."
"Nobody’s got a revolver, by any chance? I suppose that’s too much to hope for."
"The devil of it is that that’s all probably been provided for."
"There is so little time—so little time. I really must insist that no one disturbs me."
"The blessed relief when you know that you’ve done with it all—that you haven’t got to carry the burden any longer."
"Doctors have gone mad before now. Judges have gone mad."
"I believe now that I’m in the same boat as the rest of you."
"My dear girl, I’m prepared to think anything of anyone! My advice is that we keep together until we find him."
"I assure you, Mr Blore, that I kept an extremely sharp look out."
"I’m not saying you did. You might have done, or someone might have tampered with the bottle for just this emergency."
"Armstrong’s disappeared… Vanished clean off the island."
"Vanished—that’s the word! Like some damned conjuring trick."
"No, he isn’t! I tell you, there’s nowhere to hide on this island. It’s as bare as your hand! There’s moonlight outside. As clear as day it is. And he’s not to be found."
"There’s one other little fact. A pane in the dining-room window has been smashed—and there are only three little soldier boys on the table."
"There was danger, yes, but it was danger in daylight."
"Some bright lad wandering on the cliff will recognize SOS when he sees it, I hope."
"Surely someone can read Morse. And then they’ll come to take us off. Long before this evening."
"Twenty-four hours will do it, I think. If we can last out that, we’ll be all right."
"We’d better come to a clear understanding. What’s happened to Armstrong?"
"It looks as though Armstrong had got his quietus."
"My good blockhead, I swear to you that it was put back in my drawer."
"Rather proof that I’m telling the truth, isn’t it?"
"People go days on end with nothing sometimes when they’re on a diet."
"One feels safer here, out in the open…Don’t let’s go back into the house again."
"I can’t bear it. I can’t go through another night!"
"This is the end, you understand. We’ve come to the truth now. And it’s the end…"
"And who did I see sitting there but Miss Vera Claythorne, looking like a ghost and as though she hadn’t slept all night?"
"Ten people dead on an island and not a living soul on it."
"Dam’ it all, Maine, somebody must have killed ’em."
"What about that gramophone record you found in the house? Couldn’t you get hold of anything there that might help?"
"There is, I suppose, a hundred to one chance that my confession may be found—and then a hitherto unsolved murder mystery will be explained."
"The practice of throwing a bottle into the sea with an important document inside was one that never failed to thrill me when reading adventure stories as a child."
"The legal profession satisfied nearly all my instincts."
"It must be no ordinary murder! It must be a fantastical crime—something stupendous—out of the common!"