Lately I find myself nostalgic for Agatha Christie novels and particularly for Hercule Poirot. I’ve read all of Christie’s Miss Marple books. Maybe it’s time to finally finish off all the Poirots? In any event, for nostalgia’s sake, here’s a quote from the Weekly Poirot, which was a weekly feature I used to run here on my blog, and which I miss sometimes.
The result of pretending to be a more amiable, a more forgiving, a more high-minded person than one really is, has sooner or later the effect of causing one to behave as a more disagreeable, a more ruthless and an altogether more unpleasant person than is actually the case! If you dam the stream of natural behaviour, mon ami, sooner or later the dam bursts and a cataclysm occurs!
Hercule Poirot in “A Holiday for Murder” by Agatha Christie
P.S. A typo just revealed to me that HERCULE is an anagram of HER CLUE. Interesting.