Agatha Christie Quotes

'Eh bien, Mademoiselle, all through my life I have observed one thing - 'All one wants one gets!' Who knows?' His face screwed itself up comically. 'You may get more than you bargain for.'

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• I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Women
  • Influence

• Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Age
  • Need
  • Solidarity

• I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Book
  • Reading

• Spare no expense to save money on this one.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Money
  • Save
  • Expense

• I grew up as a country boy.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Up
  • Country
  • Boy

• When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Yourself
  • Tough

• Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Good
  • Now
  • Embrace

• I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Entertaining

• I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Movies
  • Discover
  • Observer

• I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Love
  • City
  • Creativity

• When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Work
  • Friends

• It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • School
  • Girl
  • Name

• A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Looks
  • Flowers

• This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Time
  • Fantasy
  • Watching

• To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Management
  • Go
  • Yale

• When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Love
  • Process

• Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • People
  • Direction
  • Tradition

• There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Treasure
  • Pirate
  • Island

• The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Important
  • Moral
  • Revolution

• You still get these waves of doubt that come over you, for example, when you get a bad review or you accept a part and think, 'Oh, God, what have I just accepted? I can't do that.' I don't think that's something that will ever go away in me.

  

  Ben Barnes
  • God
  • Bad
  • Doubt

• I like 'X Factor' as much as the next person, but I do get overwhelmed with the amount of reality TV. It's such cheap programming and such a load of rubbish, most of it.

  

  Joanne Froggatt
  • Reality

• Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Time
  • You
  • Always

• I’m sure they’ll come up with all kinds of rationalizations, if the human precedent is anything to go by.

  

  Ken MacLeod
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• 'Eh bien, Mademoiselle, all through my life I have observed one thing - 'All one wants one gets!' Who knows?' His face screwed itself up comically. 'You may get more than you bargain for.'

  

  Agatha Christie
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