Agatha Christie Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Eggs Quotes

Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this – ” he tapped his egg-shaped head – “this, that functions!

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

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Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

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One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

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Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them.

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And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-" "Ah, no, my friend-" "From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together - by death.

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Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple

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Assumptions are dangerous things.

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One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

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Who are you? You don't belong to the police?' 'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.

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Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.

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The truth often does sound unconvincing.

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There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.

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

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To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.

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Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

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The rottenness comes from within.

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Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

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

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Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

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