Agatha Christie Quotes

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Handsome, strong, gay … She felt again the thro and lilt of her blood. She had loved Kameni in that moment. She loved him now. Kameni could take the place that Khay had held in her life. She thought: "We shall be happy together - yes, we shall be happy. We shall live together and take pleasure in each other and we shall have strong, handsome children. There will be busy days full of work … and days of pleasure when we sail on the River... Life will be again as I knew it with Khay... What could I ask more than that? What do I want more than that?"

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

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It is curious — but you cannot make a revolution without honest men.... Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.

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

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The detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

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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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Me, I am convinced it is the truth, said M. Bouc, becoming more and more enamoured of his theory.

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It makes me madder than a hornet to be disbelieved, she explained.

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Surely for everything you love you have to pay some price?

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Was that what, ultimately, war did to you? It was not the physical dangers — the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think.

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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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You have been to the Riviera before, Georges? said Poirot to his valet the following morning.
George was an intensely English, rather wooden-faced individual.
Yes, sir. I was here two years ago when I was in the service of Lord Edward Frampton.
And today, murmured his master, you are here with Hercule Poirot. How one mounts in the world!

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Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

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The old, you must remember, though considered incapable of action, have nevertheless a good fund of experience on which to draw.

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Like most Englishmen, he felt something strongly, and proceeded to muddle around until he had, somehow or other, cleared up the mess.

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All women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.

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Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

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An Englishman thinks first of his work — his job, he calls it — and then of his sport, and last — a good way last — of his wife.

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Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

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One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.

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