Agatha Christie Quotes
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'Yes. I like to see people get angry. I like it very much. But here in England they do not get angry like they do in Spain. In Spain they take out their knives and they curse and shout. In England they do nothing, just get very red in the face and shut up their mouths tight.'
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In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean? And just where does my story begin? I must try and think...
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'There’s no reason why women shouldn’t behave like rational beings,' said Simon stolidly. Poirot said dryly: 'Quite frequently they do. That is even more upsetting!'
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That was the worst of Dr Reilly. You never knew whether he was joking or not. He always said things in the same slow melancholy way - but half the time there was a twinkle underneath it.
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Now there is no murder without a motive.
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Oh dear, I never realized what a terrible lot of explaining one has to do in a murder!
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One forgets how human murderers are.
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The crime is now logical and reasonable.
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‘If one approaches a problem with order and method there should be no difficulty in solving it - none whatever,’ said Pirot severely.
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Tout de même, it is not necessary that he should be killed on the Orient Express. There are other places.
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Like most Englishmen, he felt something strongly, and proceeded to muddle around until he had, somehow or other, cleared up the mess.
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'Well, what are you doing? What have you done?' 'I am sitting in this char,' said Poirot. 'Thinking,' he added. 'Is that all?' said Mrs. Oliver. 'It is the important thing,' said Poirot.
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It’s so messy bleeding like a pig.
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Is it coding - or code breaking? Is it like Deborah’s job? Do be careful, Tommy, people go queer doing that and can’t sleep and walk about all night groaning and repeating 978345286 or something like that and finally have nervous breakdowns and go into homes.
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‘You’re frightfully BBC in your language this afternoon, Albert,’ said Tuppance, with some exasperation. Albert looked slightly taken aback and reverted to a more natural form of speech. ‘I was listening to a very interesting talk on pond life last night,’ he explained.
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‘I have often noticed that being a devoted wife saps the intellect,’ murmured Tommy.
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The fellow is an absolute outsider, anyone can see that. He’s got a great black beard, and wears patent leather boots in all weathers!
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It is the misfortune of small, precise men always to hanker after large and flamboyant women.
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I am not keeping back facts. Every fact that I know is in your possession. You can draw your own deductions from them.
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Harold Waring, like many other Englishmen, was a bad linguist.
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'You do well. Method and order, they are everything,' replied Poirot.
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It's as easy to utter lies as truth.
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You have an excellent heart, my friend - but your grey cells are in a deplorable condition.
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There were to be no short cuts to the truth. Instead he would have to adopt a longer, but a reasonably sure method. There would have to be conversation. Much conversation. For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away...