Agatha Christie Quotes, Conscious Quotes, Tact Quotes

There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

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It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

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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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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 suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

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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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What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.

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Money ... is always the great clue to what is happening in the world.

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I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.

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I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

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lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.

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It's no good starting out by thinking one is a heaven-born genius- some people are, but very few. No, one is a tradesman - a tradesman in a good honest trade. You must learn the technical skills, and then, within that trade, you can apply your own creative ideas, but you must submit them to the discipline of form.

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marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.

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You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.

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Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

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An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

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Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.

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I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

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I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting... I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body in the face. It is the means that I am interested in. I do not usually describe the end, which is often a corpse.

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

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