Subject: Knocking
Quote: “I don’t expect you’ve made enough noise with this thing.”
Seizing the knocker, she executed a deafening rat-a-tat-tat, and in addition thumped upon the panels of the door. She also called out in a stentorian voice, “What ho, within there!”
Character: Miss Amanda Hartnell
Chapter/Story: “Tape Measure Murder”
Book Title/Copyright: The Mousetrap (Three Blind Mice and Other Stories), 1925-1949
Agatha Christie was a fount of wisdom, humor, and opinion on a wide variety of topics ranging from Breakfast to Sleep. This blog is devoted to sharing memorable quotes from Christie's oeuvre.
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- Action
- Actors
- Age
- Airports
- Americans
- Assumptions
- Attractiveness
- Breakfast
- Britons
- Cats
- Christmas Stress
- Class Distinctions
- Common Sense
- Compromise
- Context
- Criminality
- Death & Dying
- Democracy
- Detective Methods
- Devotion
- Doctors
- Dogs
- Dogsbody
- Drunkenness
- Earwigs
- Enemies
- Enthusiasm
- Evil
- Exaggeration
- Eyes
- Fidelity
- Fighter
- Flattery
- Gardening
- Gossip
- Habits
- Horses
- Human Behavior
- Human Nature
- Humility
- Hypocrisy
- Immodesty
- Insight, Intuition, & Imagination
- Jealousy
- Jigsaw Puzzles
- Juries
- Knocking
- Leadership
- Life & Fate
- Listening
- Loneliness
- Love
- Madness
- Malice
- Matrimony & Divorce
- Men
- Money
- Murder(ers)
- Mustaches
- Names
- Observation
- Obsession
- Order and Method
- Parenting
- Past, Present, Future
- Patience
- Physics & Metaphysics
- Physiology
- Politeness
- Possessiveness
- Premonition
- Pride
- Rabbits
- Reincarnation
- Risk & Safety
- St. Elizabeth
- Self-Confidence
- Sinks
- Sleep
- Spanish Proverb
- Steel Bands
- Stupidity
- Success
- Suicide
- Tact
- Thankfulness
- Tradition
- Travel
- Trouble
- Trust
- Truth & Deception
- Underdog
- Vanity
- Voice
- Wages of Sin
- War, Effects of
- Women
- Work Ethic
- World Order
- The Worst
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