Agatha Christie Quote

The man obviously wanted to tell him something — and as obviously had lost the art of simple narration. Words had become to him a means of obscuring facts — not of revealing them. He was an adept in the art of the useful phrase — that is to say, the phrase that falls soothingly on the ear and is quite empty of meaning.


The Labors of Hercules (1947)


The man obviously wanted to tell him something — and as obviously had lost the art of simple narration. Words had become to him a means of...

The man obviously wanted to tell him something — and as obviously had lost the art of simple narration. Words had become to him a means of...

The man obviously wanted to tell him something — and as obviously had lost the art of simple narration. Words had become to him a means of...

The man obviously wanted to tell him something — and as obviously had lost the art of simple narration. Words had become to him a means of...