Agatha Christie - Woman Quotes

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An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

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To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.

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

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

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Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.

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What any woman saw in some particular man was beyond the comprehension of the average intelligent male. It just was so. A woman who could be intelligent about everything else in the world could be a complete fool when it came to some particular man.

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Definitely a dreary woman. Rather like an earwig. She's a devoted mother. So are earwigs, I believe.

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Every woman should marry an archaeologist because she grows increasingly attractive to him as she grows increasingly to resemble a ruin.

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She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

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God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings — not dummies! Be personal — be prejudiced — be catty — be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!

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Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!

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Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was a girl, so as to be more knowledgeable on the subject, he said, 'Don't you realize that at this moment you know more about prehistoric pottery than any woman in England?'

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There speaks the passion and the rebellion that go with red hair. My second wife had red hair. She was a beautiful woman, and she loved me. Strange, is it not? I have always admired red-haired women. Your hair is very beautiful. There are other things I like about you. Your spirit, your courage; the fact that you have a mind of your own.
Mr. Aristides speaking

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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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I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise. A beastly thing, compromise, but it steals upon you as you near middle age. It's stealing upon me now. To get the woman I want I'd — I'd even take up regular work.

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