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

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

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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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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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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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Perhaps a little of Trollope, but not to drown in him.

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One doesn't recognize in one's life the really important moments — not until it's too late.

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Everything has got its right size. When it is its right size and well run it's the tops.

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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

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The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.

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I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

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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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It's so dreadfully easy—killing people… And you begin to feel that it doesn't matter… That it's only you that matters! It's dangerous—that.

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It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to!

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Oh, dear, it's quite true what Dr. Reilly said. How does one stop writing? If I could find a really good telling phrase... Like the one M. Poirot used. In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate... Something like that.

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But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

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I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

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Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

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Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.

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That is what I mean. A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one turns the taps and fills it, one gets in, one gets out and ghoosh - ghoosh - ghoosh, the water goes down the waste pipe!" "M. Poirot are you quite mad?" "No, I am extremely sane.

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What else will you have? Nice banana and bacon sandwich?

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'If one approaches a problem with order and method there should be no difficulty in solving it — none whatever,' said Pirot severely.

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