Agatha Christie Quotes

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Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

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An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

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It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous, that you realize just how much you love them.

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It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

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Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention — invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

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Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes — they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.... The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves that they don't give a damn.

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The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them....

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You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!

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Mademoiselle, I said, it is sometimes difficult for a dog to find a scent, but once he has found it, nothing on earth will make him leave it! That is if he is a good dog! And I, mademoiselle, I, Hercule Poirot, am a very good dog.

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There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

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Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.

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You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

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The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.

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Mrs. Oliver in her own opinion was famous for her intuition. One intuition succeeded another with remarkable rapidity, and Mrs. Oliver always claimed the right to justify the particular intuition which turned out to be right!

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Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend. You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.

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Last time I had my hands on you, you felt like a bird - struggling to escape. You'll never escape now...

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Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

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Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.

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Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

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Men are made fools by the gleaming limbs of women, and, lo, in a minute they are become discolored carnelians. A trifle, a little, the likeness of a dream. And death comes as the end.

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I've got an uncle myself. Nobody should be held responsible for their uncles. Nature's little throwbacks — that's how I look at it.

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I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea....

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I felt that the murderer was in the room. Sitting with us-listening. one of us

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I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.

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Inside, it was clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way around. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

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Darling, she drawled, won't that be rather tiresome? If any misfortunes happen to my friends I always drop them at once! It sounds heartless, but it saves such a lot of trouble later!

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Author's dedication:
To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure.

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But how much are the delicate convolutions of the brain influenced by the digestive apparatus? When the mal de mere seizes me I, Hercule Poirot, am a creature with no grey cells, no order, no method — a mere member of the human race somewhere below average intelligence!

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Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.

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