Agatha Christie Short Quotes

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Poirot twinkled at her gently.

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Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

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And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.

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Pilar—remember—nothing is so boring as devotion.

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Let us think only of the good days that are to come.

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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

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How averse human beings were ever to admit ignorance!

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Perhaps a little of Trollope, but not to drown in him.

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

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What else will you have? Nice banana and bacon sandwich?

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The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.

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

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I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

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Ideas are like everything else. They've got to be marketed.

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Tcha! Tcha! cried Poirot irritably. You argue like a child.

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It was a very British and utterly unconvincing performance.

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From a distance he had the bland aspect of a philanthropist.

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Writers are diffident creatures — they need encouragement.

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Too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.

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At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

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

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It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting!

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You cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.

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

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Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.

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Evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good.

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Speech... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

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There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

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The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.

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To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.

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