Agatha Christie Quotes, Spiritual Quotes, War Quotes

That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think.

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The truth often does sound unconvincing.

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It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

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I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

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Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

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Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.

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Those who never think of money need a great deal of it.

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Very few of us are what we seem.

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But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.

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Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.

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Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

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Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?

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You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

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I've got an uncle myself. Nobody should be held responsible for their uncles. Nature's little throwbacks - that's how I look at it.

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Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

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Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

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I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.

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When a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.

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

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Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.

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