Subject: Love
Quote: “I think love is like that—a thing one cannot help. I have tried, I know—ever since the first day I met you. And love has been too strong for me.”
Character: Captain Hastings
Chapter/Story: 22—I Find Love
Book Title/Copyright: Murder on the Links, 1923Subject: Love
Quote: “It is love that has come—not as you imagined it, all cock a hoop with fine feathers, but sadly, with bleeding feet.”
Character: M. Hercule Poirot
Chapter/Story: 22—I Find Love
Book Title/Copyright: Murder on the Links, 1923
Subject: Women and Men
Quote: “Papa always said that in the beginning men and women roamed the world together, equal in strength—like lions and tigers...they were nomadic…. It wasn’t till they settled down in communities, and women did one kind of thing and men another that women got weak. And of course, underneath, one is still the same—one feels the same, I mean, and that is why women worship physical strength in men—it’s what they once had and lost…. You think you admire moral qualities, but when you fall in love, you revert to the primitive where the physical is all that counts. But I don’t think that’s the end—if you lived in primitive conditions it would be all right, but you don’t—and so, in the end, the other thing wins after all. It’s the things that are apparently conquered that always do win, isn’t it? They win in the only way that counts. Like what the Bible says about losing your soul and finding it.”
Character: Anne Beddingfeld
Chapter/Story: 18
Book Title/Copyright: The Man in the Brown Suit, 1924
Subject: Women and Love
Quote: “Love isn’t a drug that you take to blind you to your surroundings—you can make it that, yes, but it’s a pity—love can be a lot more than that…. And no woman respects a man when he’s doing a thing thoroughly badly.”
Character: Anthony Cade
Chapter/Story: 22—The Red Signal
Book Title/Copyright: The Secret of Chimneys, 1925
Subject: Men in Love
Quote: “A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can’t help looking like a sheep. Now, whenever that young man looked at you he looked like a sheep. I take back all I said this morning. It is genuine.”
Character: Miss Amelia Viner
Chapter/Story: 30—Miss Viner Gives Judgment
Book Title/Copyright: The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1928
Subject: Liking vs. Loving
Quote: “I like you, Luke…. Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don’t want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other, and then want to marry someone else.”
Character: Bridget Conway
Chapter/Story: 24
Book Title/Copyright: Easy to Kill, 1938
Subject: Love
Quote: Elinor said gravely, “I care for Roddy enough and not too much.”
Mrs. Welman nodded approval. “I think, then, you’ll be happy. Roddy needs love—but he doesn’t like violent emotion. He’d shy off from possessiveness…. If Roddy cares for you just a little more than you care for him—well, that’s all to the good.”
Elinor said sharply, “Aunt Agatha’s Advice Column. ‘Keep your boy friend guessing! Don’t let him be too sure of you!’”….
Laura Welman said, “you just thought I was being rather—cheap? My dear, you’re young and sensitive. Life, I’m afraid is rather cheap.”
Character: Elinor Carlisle and Laura Welman
Chapter/Story: 2
Book Title/Copyright: Sad Cypress, 1939
Subject: Love and Trust
Quote: “Can you love someone you don’t trust?”
“Unfortunately, yes.”
Character: Lynn Marchmont and M. Hercule Poirot
Chapter/Story: Book Two—12
Book Title/Copyright: There is a Tide, 1948
Subject: Love and Reasonableness
Quote: [R]easonableness has never been a quality that appeals to lovers.
Character: Omniscient Narrator
Chapter/Story: Book One—13
Book Title/Copyright: There is a Tide, 1948
Subject: Murder and Love
Quote: “I think people more often kill those they love, than those they hate. Possibly because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you.”
Character: Sir Arthur Hayward
Chapter/Story: 12
Book Title/Copyright: Crooked House, 1949
