Agatha Christie Quotes, Use Quotes, Guessing Quotes

Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.

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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, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.

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Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.

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Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.

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Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of Mrs. Armstrong's mother, the detective methods of Mr. Hardman, the suggestion of Mr. MacQueen that Ratchett himself destroyed the charred note we found, Princess Dragomiroff's Christian name, and a grease spot on a Hungarian passport.

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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

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The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.

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One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

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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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Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

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

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Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

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Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

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You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.

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Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

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How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.

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I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.

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But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

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Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.

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