Agatha Christie Quotes, Simple Quotes, Police Quotes

Who are you? You don't belong to the police?' 'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.

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Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

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Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.

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An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.

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I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there.

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Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

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If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.

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You'll be glad too, when the end comes.

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One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.

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Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

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Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

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To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.

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One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

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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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To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

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There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well

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One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

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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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Assumptions are dangerous things.

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To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived.

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