Agatha Christie Quotes

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I'm afraid of death... Yes, but that doesn't stop death coming...

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Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?

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There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

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I am not keeping back facts. Every fact that I know is in your possession. You can draw your own deductions from them.

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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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How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.

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When you find that people are not telling you the truth—look out!

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I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.

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I was wrong about that young man of yours. A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. Now, whenever that young man looked at you he looked like a sheep. I take back all I said this morning. It is genuine.

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I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

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Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?

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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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The supernatural is only the natural of which the laws are not yet understood.

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

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Even the sensible and the competent have been given tongues by le bon Dieu—and they do not always employ their tongues wisely.

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Harold Waring, like many other Englishmen, was a bad linguist.

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Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.

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"I have made my choice, Hori. I will share my life with you for good or evil, until death comes..." With his arms round her, with the sudden new sweetness of his face against hers, she was filled with an exultant richness of living.

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Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.

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It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

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Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.

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"You know that in all tombs there is always a false door?"
Renisenb stared. "Yes, of course."
"Well, people are like that too. They create a false door - to deceive. If they are conscious of weakness, of inefficiency, they make an imposing door of self-assertion, of bluster, of overwhelming authority - and, after a time, they get to believe in it themselves. They think, and everybody thinks, that they are like that. But behind that door, Renisenb, is a bare rock … And so when reality comes and touches them with the feather of truth - their true self reasserts itself."

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Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.

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It's not impossible my dear. It's just a very remarkable coincidence—and remarkable coincidences do happen.

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I like to see an angry Englishman, said Poirot. They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.

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The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

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More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.

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The tear rose in Miss Marple's eyes. Succeeding pity, there came anger - anger against a heartless killer. And then, displacing both these emotions, there came a surge of triumph - the triumph some specialist might feel who has successfully reconstructed an extinct animal from a fragment of jawbone and a couple of teeth.

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And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-" "Ah, no, my friend-" "From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together - by death.

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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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