Agatha Christie Quotes

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"Nothing", I said sadly. "They are two delightful women!" "And neither of them is for you?" finished Poirot. "Never mind. Console yourself, my friend. We may hunt together again, who knows?"

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There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

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

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

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

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The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.

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

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

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I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.

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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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The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.

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'Truth of it is,' said Commander Haydock, steering rather erratically round a one-way island and narrowly missing collision with a large van, 'when the beggars are right, one remembers it, and when they're wrong you forget it.'

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Without interest (hers not the type to wonder why!) but with perfect efficiently, Miss Lemon had fulfilled her task.

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Speech... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

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It was clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. 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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Everything has got its right size. When it is its right size and well run it's the tops.

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