Quotes About Tuppence

#1. This book is dedicated to the many readers in this and in other countries who write to me asking: 'What has happened to Tommy and Tuppence? What are they doing now?' My best wishes to you all, and I hope you will enjoy meeting Tommy and Tuppence again, years older, but with spirit unquenched!

Agatha Christie

#2. I can look after her all right, sir," said Tommy, at exactly the same minute as Tuppence said, "I can take care of myself.

Agatha Christie

#3. Mirabelle always ate her lunch on Brighton beach if the weather was in any way passable, but out of sheer principle she never paid tuppence for a chair. We did not win the war to have to pay to sit down, she frequently found herself thinking.

Sara Sheridan

#4. I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

E.P. Thompson

#5. I daresay people have liked murderers," said Tuppence very reasonably. "It's like swindlers and confidence tricksmen who always look so honest and seem so honest. I daresay murderers all seem very nice and particularly softhearted. That sort of thing.

Agatha Christie

#6. We Three Kings of Leicester Square,
Selling ladies' underwear,
So fantastic, no elastic,
Only tuppence a pair.

Alan Bradley

#7. Or look at the old money, with its florins and half crowns and thrupenny bits, and imagine what it was like in the days when people had to add tuppence ha'penny to one shilling four nibblings or whatever. With

Bill Bryson

#8. Tuppence had once laid upon him a serious injunction. ' If anybody over the age of sixty-five finds fault with you,' she said, 'never argue. Never try to say you're right. Apologize at once and say it was all your fault and you're very sorry and you'll never do it again.

Agatha Christie

#9. Tuppence was what my grandmother nicknamed my mother, so she gave it to me. My sister is called Angel, and my brother was going to be called Bubba or Sonny, until they let me and my sister name him Josh.

Tuppence Middleton

#10. The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets.
He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.

P.G. Wodehouse

#11. I know those kinds of lenses, said Tuppence. By the time you've adjusted the shutter and stopped down and calculated the exposure and kept your eye on the spirit level, your brain gives out and you yearn for the simple browning.

Agatha Christie

#12. You do think you know about everything," said her husband.
I do," said Tuppence.

Agatha Christie

#13. You want a career. You don't want to do a couple of good films and then your career is over.

Tuppence Middleton

#14. I don't want to be one of those young actors who is around for a couple of years and melts off the scene.

Tuppence Middleton

#15. Lost race?" The Prince studied Orayna, trying to see something inhuman in her. "Why have I never heard of these 'Rathiuel'?"
"Because," Azaroth rapped his knuckles on the Prince's skull, "you do not care to read.

Leonard Mokos

#16. Period dramas seem to take actors to the next level because they do so well in America.

Tuppence Middleton

#17. What's natural is the microbe. All the rest - health, integrity, purity (if you like) - is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter. The good man, the man who infects hardly anyone, is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention.

Albert Camus

#18. I love film, but it's funny going to drama school for three years, where you spend most of your time training for theatre, then coming out and just doing films.

Tuppence Middleton

#19. Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act spontaneously, without needing to know why.

Sylvia Clare

#20. I noticed the drama majors on campus when I was at Notre Dame. They just seemed to be freer spirits than the rest of us. There was joy in their work; they were the only ones studying something whose work made them happy. I envied that.

Catherine Hicks

#21. I think I would've been a bit terrified to have gone and done a lead straight away. Obviously great if you do, but it's all about longevity.

Tuppence Middleton

#22. Richard Barager has written THE novel of the Sixties - a passion-filled, pitch-perfect, roller coaster of a tale about the decade that divides us all.

David Horowitz

#23. On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.

Charles Sturt

#24. I was very, very shy in public and school, and quite loud and brash at home.

Tuppence Middleton

#25. I don't think, as an actress, you want to be beautiful. It's actually a disadvantage because that's not where all the interesting parts lie.

Tuppence Middleton

#26. Through our work and play, each of us eventually becomes a personification of what we cherish in life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#27. As I got older, I auditioned for drama school and shocked myself by getting in.

Tuppence Middleton

#28. Since Kate Middleton came around, some people think I'm related to her, but unfortunately, there's no connection.

Tuppence Middleton

#29. What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

Katherine Mansfield

#30. I just enjoyed telling stories. I enjoyed watching films and reading and becoming someone else. I spent a lot of time on my own when I was younger; I enjoyed my own company and still do, so it was a source of escapism.

Tuppence Middleton

#31. Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect with their tribes.

Erik Parker

#32. I'd love to have a room full of taxidermy. I'd be devastated if my cat, Archimedes, ever died. I was debating the other day with a friend whether I should stuff him, but don't know whether he would end up looking like himself. I'd be really sad if he looked strange.

Tuppence Middleton

#33. This is home. This is where we are. This is the place we store our love. You just have to be content to be in your own skin, that's all". Charlie to Ginny

Kristen D. Randle

#34. I liked to be in my own company, so when I came home from school, I'd just go up to my room and hang out by myself. I wouldn't really have friends over or go to see friends much.

Tuppence Middleton