Agatha Christie Quotes

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I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.

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Many friends have said to me, 'I never know when you write your books, because I've never seen you writing, or even seen you go away to write.' I must behave rather as dogs do when they retire with a bone; they depart in a secretive manner and you do not see them again for an odd half hour. They return self-consciously with mud on their noses. I do much the same.

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It really is very dangerous to believe people. I never have for years.

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You agree — I'm sure you agree, that beauty is the only thing worth living for.

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It was a very British and utterly unconvincing performance.

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I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself.

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A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.

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A lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an oyster all their lives seem positively to relish causing trouble when they themselves shall be comfortably dead.

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See you, my dear doctor, me, I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.

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The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.

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The character of the victim has always something to do with his or her murder.

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Ah! Poirot shook his forefinger so fiercely at me that I quailed before it. Beware! Peril to the detective who says: 'It is so small—it does not matter. It will not agree. I will forget it.' That way lies confusion! Everything matters.

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A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man. (Inspector Miller)

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You do well. Method and order, they are everything, replied Poirot.

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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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I must have a talk with you, David, and learn all the new ideas. As far as I can see, one must hate everybody but at the same time give them free medical attention and a lot of extra education, poor things! All those helpless little children herded into schoolhouses every day—and cod liver oil forced down babies' throats whether they like it or not—such nasty-smelling stuff.

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Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?

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There are some people who don't conform to the signals. An ordinary well-regulated locomotive slows down or pulls up when it sees the red light hoisted against it. Perhaps I was born color blind. When I see the red signal — I can't help forging ahead. And in the end, you know, that spells disaster.

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When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

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'Don't worry.' Surely the most fatuous words in the English or any other language.

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There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

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The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

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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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Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.

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It all came together then, you see—all the various isolated bits—and made a coherent pattern.

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