Agatha Christie Quotes, Mean Quotes, Scotch Quotes

Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.

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Books are a habit-forming drug.

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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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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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Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.

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Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.

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A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves

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Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

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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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I'm afraid of death... Yes, but that doesn't stop death coming.

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Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

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I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know..."

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Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

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

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Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

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Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

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There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

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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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I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

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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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