Agatha Christie Quotes, Humility Quotes, Men Quotes

... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men' -- you have lost the two most valuable qualities we have ever tried to attain: -- humility and brotherhood.

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Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

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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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You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.

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Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

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It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.

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Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

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There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.

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One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.

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She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

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Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple

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... nothing is so boring as devotion.

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Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.

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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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Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.

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And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.

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Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

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And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-" "Ah, no, my friend-" "From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together - by death.

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Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!

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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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