Miss Marple Quotes

• If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

  Agatha Christie

  Careers, Missing, Deceit

  Agatha Christie (1967). “Murder in our midst”

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• It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.

  Agatha Christie

  Crime Novels, Unhappy, Make You Happy

  Agatha Christie (1960). “Murder Preferred: Including: The Patriotic Murders; A Murder is Announced; Murder in Retrospect”

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• Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple

  Agatha Christie

  Missing, Realising

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• Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.

  Peter York

  House, Missing, Serious

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• I really cannot understand the point of what you're saying. Really,' said Clotilde, looking at her. 'What a very extraordinary person you are. What sort of a woman are you? Why are you talking like this? Who are you?' Miss Marple pulled down the mass of pink wool that encircled her head, a pink wool scarf of the same kind that she had once worn in the West Indies. 'One of my names,' she said, 'is Nemesis.' 'Nemesis? And what does that mean?' 'I think you know,' said Miss Marple. 'You are a very well educated woman. Nemesis is long delayed sometimes, but it comes in the end.

  Agatha Christie

  Mean, Thinking, West Indies

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• One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.

  Agatha Christie

  Voice, Evil, Missing

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Agatha Christie, five Miss Marple mysteries”

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• Maybe if I prayed to Miss Marple, she’d hook me up with a clue

  Ilona Andrews

  Missing, Hook, Clue

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Strikes: A Kate Daniels Novel: 3”, p.78, Hachette UK

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• I feel like an old lady; my hero is Miss Marple.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Hero, Missing, Old Lady

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