Murder on the Orient Express Starters
RP sentence starters from Agatha Christie’s novel. Change pronouns and such to fit.
❝I wish to heaven you were out of all of this.❞
❝Rather an odd little comedy that I watch here.❞
❝There is no danger, I assure you.❞
❝The trains are almost empty.❞
❝I meant what did you think of their personalities?❞
❝It was as though a wild animal had passed me by.❞
❝I could not rid myself of the impression that evil had passed me by very close.❞
❝All the world elects to travel tonight!❞
❝Can you oblige me for a light?❞
❝In my country, we come to the point quickly.❞
❝Men in that position have enemies.❞
❝It may be foolish, but I feel anything might happen.❞
❝Imagine to yourself the time I have had with _______!❞
❝I remember once being snowed up for seven days.❞
❝I feel too mad to talk about it.❞
❝I have, perhaps, something to contribute to your store of knowledge.❞
❝Only a woman could stab like that.❞
❝Lie back and think—use the little grey cells of the mind—and you will know!❞
❝For one thing, I don’t think ______ was his real name.❞
❝I felt there was a good deal going on underneath the quietness.❞
❝It sounded to me a little like nonsense.❞
❝I understand nothing at all, and, as you perceive, it worries me.❞
❝Seemed to imagine I’d dreamt the whole thing.❞
❝There may be a natural explanation for that.❞
❝What do you call that, I should like to know?❞
❝I am wondering what they meant by destiny.❞
❝What sort of a person is _____?❞
❝You can’t pin it down more definitely than that?❞
❝A crime—it’s all in a day’s work to you, hm?❞
❝I am, like you, a very puzzled man.❞
❝The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.❞
❝You rely on intuition—what the Americans call ‘the hunch.’❞
❝You’re inclined to put the cart before the horse.❞
❝The point is—where did he go?❞
❝And now let us make the fantasy more fantastic!❞
❝We’re all in the same case; every one of us.❞
❝The most kind, the most amiable, are not always the cleverest.❞
❝Your American terms are so quaint, so expressive.❞
❝I don’t know if I’m sorry or glad.❞
❝Don’t you think you are making rather a fuss about nothing?❞
❝Perhaps you may find this more to your taste.❞
❝It might be a question of the influence of mind over body.❞
❝You have the makings of a very fine criminal.❞
❝What an idiot I’m making of myself!❞
❝The more emotional they feel, the less command they have of language.❞
❝I can almost give you the answer to your question.❞
❝You sit here and I”ll stay right by you and don’t you worry any.❞
❝It must be not chance, but design.❞
❝I always fancied myself in comedy parts.❞
❝And then, at the last minute, you came…❞