Murder Is Easy Quotes
"England! England after many years! How was he going to like it?"
"Here he was, honorably retired on a pension, with some small private means of his own, a gentleman of leisure, come home to England."
"It's very easy to kill, so long as no one suspects you."
"No, I don't think she was off her head. She was quite circumstantial; mentioned one or two victims by name."
"An Englishman's house is his castle - literally so in Gordon's case!"
"A man who is a child is the most frightening thing in the world."
"A sore trial he's been to me in many ways, but there it was just high spirits - nothing but high spirits, such as any lad might have. There wasn't no real harm in him, as you might say."
"It's a pity one can't apply that theory fairly often."
"If you're careful. One just has to be careful, that's all. But a clever man is extremely careful not to make a slip. That's all there is to it."
"These methods that you advocate - did you put them into practice in the - Mayang Straits, I think you said?"
"A homicidal lunatic often kills, as he thinks, in self-defense. But, of course, a lot of killers are ordinary sane fellows like you and me."
"Any man who is a stumbling block on the way of progress ought to be eliminated - that's how I see it."
"My job is to make the unfit fit. Most of the time it's an uphill job, I'll admit."
"Of course, his lordship's done a lot for the place. He means well; we all know that."
"Why, Lord Easterfield's father kept a boot shop only a few doors from here. My mother remembers Gordon Ragg serving in the shop - remembers it as well as anything. Of course, he's his lordship now and he's a rich man, but it's never the same, is it, sir?"
"The personal element. One must keep that out of it."
"This damned village - it's getting on my nerves. So smiling and peaceful, so innocent, and all the time this crazy streak of murder running through it."
"One mustn't quarrel with one's bread and butter."
"No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and dearest."
"That's the worst of a place like this. Everybody knows everything about everybody else."
"Science must be made easily assimilable by the masses."
"Dogs can't turn round on you like human beings can. Never get a nasty word from a dog."
"The world is a very wicked place, Mr. Fitzwilliam. Do you know that?"
"He knew the wickedness there was in this place."
"I like her. I think your daughter is the nicest girl I've met for a long time, Mrs. Humbleby."
"I've got to go on with this," said Luke to himself. "I've got to go on."
"It was extremely difficult to get her up in the morning. Sometimes I would knock again and again, and call out to her before she answered. But then, you know, Mr. Fitzwilliam, there's a saying there are 'none so deaf as those who will not hear.'"
"She complained that the nurses were poisoning her. She had had one nurse sent away, but she said these two were just as bad."
"Of course not. I shan't say a word to anybody."
"You mean that he's - he's a very clever man. He's cautious too. And remember, he's got a great deal of experience - perhaps more than we know."
"You're fired!" Lord Easterfield was shouting. "D'you hear? You're fired!"
"I believe in good and evil and eternal justice. There is such a thing as divine justice, Fitzwilliam; not a doubt of it!"
"It's always the way, sir. Half the witnesses have disappeared before a constable can get there and take down particulars."
"Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guesswork over logic."
"Evil doesn't go unpunished. There must be justice."
"You shouldn't have told him now. You should have waited till you'd got right away."
"I think myself it's better to get unpleasant things over as quickly as possible."
"It's very easy to kill, so long as no one suspects you. And, you see, the person in question is just the last person anyone would suspect."
"Nothing's impossible in crime. That's what I've always said. If you were to tell me that a dear old maiden lady, or an archbishop, or a schoolgirl, was a dangerous criminal, I wouldn't say no. I'd look into the matter."
"I've had such fun with him, leading him along! Odd how difficult it was to make him suspect Gordon. But after Rivers' death he would be sure to do so. He must! And now - well, this will just finish the whole thing nicely."
"All my life I've been disappointed. I've had nothing - nothing at all."
"You can't suspect anyone of murder if there isn't a motive."
"I enjoyed the killing. That disagreeable woman, Lydia Horton - she'd patronized me - once she referred to me as an 'old maid.' I was glad when Gordon quarreled with her. Two birds with one stone, I thought."
"Remember, if a woman is not happy, she is capable of terrible things."
"I knew him so well. I knew him in and out. I knew that he was pompous and petty and completely self-absorbed, but I knew, too, that he was a kindly person and almost absurdly tender-hearted."
"Men have courage - one knows that - but they are more easily deceived than women."
"It may be dangerous - yes, I'll admit that - but I've got to play my part."