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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

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

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I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right.

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If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.

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She didn't give George any too easy a time when she was alive. She was one of those semi-invalids – I believe she had really something wrong with her, but whatever it was she played it for all it was worth. She was capricious, exacting, unreasonable. She complained from morning to night. George was expected to wait on her, hand and foot and everything he did was always wrong and he got cursed for it. Most men, I'm fully convinced, would have hit her with a hatchet long ago.

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Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.

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Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.

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Poirot: Do not allow Hate into your heart, for it will make a home there. Jackie: If Love cannot live there, Hate works just as well.

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In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

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But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

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It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

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When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

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There's nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation.

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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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Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express

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The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

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There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

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And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.

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I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.

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