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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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Do you always travel first-class, Mr. Hardman?
Yes, sir. The firm pays my travelling expenses.
He winked.
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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 have, perhaps, too professional a point of view where deaths are concerned. They are divided, in my mind, into two classes — deaths which are my affair and deaths which are not my affair — and though the latter class is infinitely more numerous — nevertheless whenever I come in contact with death I am like the dog who lifts his head and sniffs the scent.
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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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Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.
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Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.
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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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Speech... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.
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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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'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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The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.
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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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He was one of those staunch patriotic Britons who, having made a portion of a foreign country their own, strongly resent the original inhabitants of it.
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Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.
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Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day's work....where crime is concerned, she's the goods.
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They have, all of them, such wonderful good manners. Not taught good manners—the natural thing. I could never have believed till I came here that natural courtesy could be such a wonderful—such a positive thing.
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Let us think only of the good days that are to come.
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If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, they usually admit it—often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.
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In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.
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See you, one should not ask for outside proof—no, reason should be enough. But the flesh is weak, it is consolation to find that one is on the right track.
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Poirot said placidly, One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this – he tapped his egg-shaped head – this, that functions!
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Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.
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Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.
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Agatha Christie
Born:
September 15, 1890
Died:
January 12, 1976
(aged 85)
Bio:
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan was an English crime novelist, short story writer and playwright.
Known for:
And Then There Were None (1939)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
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