Agatha Christie Quotes

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A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves

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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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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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There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

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Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.

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You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

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The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.

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Mrs. Oliver in her own opinion was famous for her intuition. One intuition succeeded another with remarkable rapidity, and Mrs. Oliver always claimed the right to justify the particular intuition which turned out to be right!

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Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend. You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.

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Last time I had my hands on you, you felt like a bird - struggling to escape. You'll never escape now...

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Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

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Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.

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Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

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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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I've got an uncle myself. Nobody should be held responsible for their uncles. Nature's little throwbacks — that's how I look at it.

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I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea....

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I felt that the murderer was in the room. Sitting with us-listening. one of us

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I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.

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Inside, it was clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way around. 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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Darling, she drawled, won't that be rather tiresome? If any misfortunes happen to my friends I always drop them at once! It sounds heartless, but it saves such a lot of trouble later!

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Author's dedication:
To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure.

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There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

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"Nothing", I said sadly. "They are two delightful women!" "And neither of them is for you?" finished Poirot. "Never mind. Console yourself, my friend. We may hunt together again, who knows?"

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The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them....

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Well, of course, Gwenda dear, you can always do that when you've exhausted every other line of approach, but I always think myself it's better to examine the simplest and most commonplace explanations first.

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The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided. Nevertheless, in view of the world-wide notoriety which attended it, I have been asked, both by my friend Poirot and the family themselves, to write an account of the whole story. This, we trust, will effectually silence the sensational rumours which still persist.

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Oh, dear, it's quite true what Dr. Reilly said. How does one stop writing? If I could find a really good telling phrase... Like the one M. Poirot used. In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate... Something like that.

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The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

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Pilar—remember—nothing is so boring as devotion.

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

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