Agatha Christie Quotes, Love Is Quotes, Waiting Quotes

Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.

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Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.

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Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?

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Hate doesn't last. Love does.

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Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.

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You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.

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There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.

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Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.

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Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

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Books are a habit-forming drug.

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Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.

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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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there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.

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All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

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He laughs best who laughs at the end.

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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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You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.' That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.

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A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.

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

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Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don’t you?” “Of course I believe in the truth,” said Rhoda, staring. “Yes, you say that, but perhaps you haven’t thought about it. The truth hurts sometimes – and destroys one’s illusions.” “I’d rather have it all the same.” said Rhoda. “So would I. But I don’t know that we’re wise.” Mrs. Oliver; Rhoda Dawes

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