Agatha Christie Quotes
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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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Words had become to him a means of obscuring facts - not of revealing them. He was an adept in the art of the useful phrase - that is to say the phrase that falls soothingly on the ear and is quite empty of meaning.
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I have given them life instead of death, freedom instead of the cords of superstition, beauty and truth instead of corruption and exploitation. The old bad days are over for them, the Light of the Aton has risen, and they can dwell in peace and harmony freed from the shadow of fear and oppression.
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'Tout de même,' said Poirot, 'since I cannot find anything, eh bien, then the logic falls out of the window.'
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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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'Is he then an unhappy man?' Poirot said: 'So unhappy that he has forgotten what happiness means. So unhappy that he does not know he is unhappy.' The nun said softly: 'Ah, a rich man…'
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'This affair must all be unravelled from within.' He tapped his forehead. 'These little grey cells. It is ‘up to them’ - as you say over here.'
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Work, Mr. Burton. There’s nothing like work, for men and women. The one unforgivable sin is idleness.
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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
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I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: 'I do not know...'
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There is always something about conscious tact that is very irritating.
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'I saw a particular personage and I threatened him - yes, Mademoiselle, I, Hercule Poirot, threatened him.' 'With the police?' 'No,' said Poirot drily, 'With the Press - a much more deadly weapon.'
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'It’s so dreadfully easy - killing people… And you begin to feel that it doesn’t matter… That it’s only you that matters! It’s dangerous - that.'
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There is no such thing as muddle - obscurity, yes - but muddle can exist only in a disorderly brain.
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I felt that the murderer was in the room. Sitting with us - listening. one of us
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The character of the victim has always something to do with his or her murder.
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Freckles are so earnest and Scottish.
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It was a very British and utterly unconvincing performance.
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Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
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They have, all of them, such wonderful good manners. Not taught good manners - the natural thing. I could never have believed till I came here that natural courtesy could be such a wonderful - such a positive thing.
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This, Hastings, will be my last case. It will be, too, my most interesting case - and my most interesting criminal.
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'Me, I am convinced it is the truth,' said M. Bouc, becoming more and more enamoured of his theory.
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But to succeed in life every detail should be arranged well beforehand.
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Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.