Agatha Christie Quotes, Sin Quotes

Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

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You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.

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To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

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Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.

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Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

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People should be interested in books, not their authors.

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An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.

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The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One doesn't live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dead' don't want to die! People who apparently have everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they haven't got the energy to fight.

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Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

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He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.

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One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.

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If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.

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These little grey cells. It is up to them.

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I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.

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If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

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If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

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I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

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If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

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I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're sorry for themselves. Self-pity is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in the world today.

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Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement

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