Agatha Christie Quotes, Simple Quotes, Police Quotes

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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To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.

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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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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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Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

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At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

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I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.

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

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Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.

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There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. - Hercule Poirot

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The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

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These little grey cells. It is up to them.

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"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."

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Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.

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Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.

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The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

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I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

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the science of tomorrow is the supernatural of today.

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One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

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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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