Agatha Christie Quotes

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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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The English are very stupid, said Poirot. They think that they can deceive anyone but that no one can deceive them.

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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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You give too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

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I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there is no scent to follow, he noses around — seeking always something that is not very nice.

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Where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.

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A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly despairing, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

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At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

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That's all very well—they're not educated, poor creatures.
No, and a good thing too. Education has devitalised the white races. Look at America—goes in for an orgy of culture. Simply disgusting.

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Oh dear, I never realized what a terrible lot of explaining one has to do in a murder!

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She was no longer young and had a mild worried face like a sheep.

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Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.

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I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

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There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.

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It was the technique of a man who selected thoughts as one might select pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. In due course they would be reassembled together so as to make a clear and coherent picture. At the moment the important thing was the selection, the separation.

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Yes, Mr. Lee. Superintendent Sugden did not wast time on explanations. What's all this?

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We shall not hunt together again, my friend. Our first hunt was here - and our last … They were good days, Yes, they have been good days...

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Evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good.

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Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.

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If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

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You have an excellent heart, my friend—but your grey cells are in a deplorable condition.

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What beats me—it always does—is how a man can be so clever and yet be such a perfect fool.

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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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That was the worst of Dr Reilly. You never knew whether he was joking or not. He always said things in the same slow melancholy way — but half the time there was a twinkle underneath it.

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Is he then an unhappy man?
Poirot said:
So unhappy that he has forgotten what happiness means. So unhappy that he does not know he is unhappy.
The nun said softly:
Ah, a rich man…

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"I saw a particular personage and I threatened him — yes, Mademoiselle, I, Hercule Poirot, threatened him."
"With the police?"
"No," said Poirot drily, "With the Press — a much more deadly weapon."

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Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, 'It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident?'

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But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.

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She shrugged her shoulders slightly.
What can one do?
You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.

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