Agatha Christie Quotes, Information Quotes, Assumption Quotes

I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.

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

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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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fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

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With thought, all problems can be resolved.

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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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There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way --- whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of.

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The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.

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One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.

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Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

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It's very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.

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how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

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One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

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Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

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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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When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.

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Ideas are like everything else. They've got to be marketed.

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there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.

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You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

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Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was a girl, so as to be more knowledgeable on the subject, he said, 'Don't you realize that at this moment you know more about prehistoric pottery than any woman in England?'

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