Agatha Raisin And The Murderous Marriage Quotes
"Only Agatha knew that she had no proof that her husband was dead."
"Agatha was obsessed with her handsome and attractive neighbour, James Lacey, and terrified that if she put off the wedding until she found that proof that she would lose him."
"Although James made love to her, although they were frequently in each other's company, she felt she did not really know him."
"So, though possessed with a good deal of common sense and self-honesty, when it came to James she was blind - blinded not only by love but by the fact that, as she had never been able to let anyone get close to her, his singular lack of communication seemed to her possibly normal."
"Bill had been the first friend she had ever had, a friendship formed shortly after she had moved to the country."
"She would have liked to wake him up and make love again. But James never made love in the mornings, not after that first glorious coming together."
"Living with James would be like being on some sort of perpetual visit."
"She looked at him in wonder. 'I don't think I ever really knew you.'"
"She was itching to get started on the murder investigation."
"Oh, you are such a pair of downers?" said Roy petulantly. "And coincidences do happen in real life."
"All right, but no getting yourself into danger again, Agatha. You've been involved in some scary murders in the past."
"Of course. But that lot have only to see a police uniform to clam up, and they can smell a detective at a hundred paces."
"He wasn't wearing it when I last saw him but he had it on at the wedding."
"I think you all know something you aren't telling me," said Bill, looking at them.
"I am so silly," gushed Agatha. "I have these step things at home. You know, one of those exercise machines."
"I wouldn't worry about Adder. It's quite pleasant here."
"If you choose to earn your money being at your wife's beck and call, then there is nothing I can do for you."
"They are so thickly carpeted, I knew we wouldn't disturb anyone."
"I am beginning to find you a trifle impertinent, Mr. Adder."
"Provided you always do exactly what she wants, hey?"
"They must have broken in the afternoon and knocked our story out of the paper."
"So you would have approached him and he would know his wife was going to find out all about it and the result would have been the same."
"Us shouldn't be going with the likes of you," she said. "Poor Mr. Lacey. What a disgrace."
"She felt if only the wind would blow away the mist and fog, her spirits would lighten."
"Autumn seemed to be inside her very brain, darkness and falling leaves and the haunting spectre of decay and old age."
"The middle-aged, like Agatha, can be extremely cruel about the old, possibly because they are looking at their immediate future."
"Only in Britain, thought Agatha, could you still come across women of means who went in for having their teeth removed."
"Mother always used to say I noticed what the average person missed."
"She put her finger to her forehead, rather like the Dodo in Alice, and frowned."
"He was charming and amusing and...well, the others seemed a lot of stuffed shirts."
"I wish I had never got into this mess, and I know I won't be free until it's over."
"I used to long for London. Then I got used to it. I started noticing the changing seasons, and then it began to look beautiful, like watching a series of landscape paintings, one after another."
"The country doesn't seem beautiful at first. I used to long for London. Then I got used to it. I started noticing the changing seasons, and then it began to look beautiful, like watching a series of landscape paintings, one after another."
"One has," said Agatha Raisin haughtily, "got to take risks in this business."
"It's a wonder you ever solve anything," said Agatha, "considering the way you put people's backs up."
"The trouble with you women who don't work is you're always poking your nose into other people's affairs."
"I hate her almost as much as I hate that Maddie Hurd. What Bill ever saw in her is beyond me. What a bitch!"
"Who would do a thing like this?" demanded James. "Someone meant to roast us alive."
"Men are so blind. She was sly and devious. And mercenary."
"You've been putting that stick of yours in muddy waters and stirring things up," Bill accused Agatha.
"We may seem to you very slow, but we are thorough."
"It always reinforces my belief in the fundamental goodness of people in the way that a little bit of kindness engenders such a reward."
"But when she walked into James's cottage and he looked up and smiled at her, she felt her heart turn over and wondered if she would ever really be free of the feelings she had for him."
"Just look at that bloody fog." James rubbed at the windscreen with a gloved hand.
"Hint that there's a good amount of money to be made. Put her in your debt."
"Guess what? I've got a slow day, so we can go."
"This is no good," said Roy as the third empty cab sailed by them without stopping.
"You can still run," panted Roy when they finally came to a halt.
"It's a bit like those people who believe they had a previous life," muttered Agatha.
"I'll tell you who I am," he said, his voice slightly slurred. "I'm a big executive in the City."
"Let's just hope it's not one of those cabs where they lock the doors."
"Do you mind if I make a telephone call?" he said at last.
"I wash not allush like thish," slurred Charles at one point.
"Don't do it again." His face beamed. "I'd hate to lose you."
"No one whose brains haven't turned into mush belongs here."
"Stuff London and Mrs. Hardy, thought Agatha. I'm happy here."
"But you're not. I'm glad you're leaving Carsely. You don't belong here."
"He comes," said James acidly, "to get a tan from the light that shines from the hole in your arse."
"Don't be ridiculous. The thought of you and a man as young as Bill Wong is disgusting."
"Silly old fool," he said aloud, but he meant himself and not Agatha Raisin.