Agatha Christie Quotes, Boring Quotes, Devotion Quotes

... nothing is so boring as devotion.

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Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

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Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.

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Things never come when they are expected.

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"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."

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Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.

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That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think.

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It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

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I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.

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The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

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One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

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In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.

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

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Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

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Many friends have said to me, 'I never know when you write your books, because I've never seen you writing, or even seen you go away to write.' I must behave rather as dogs do when they retire with a bone; they depart in a secretive manner and you do not see them again for an odd half hour. They return self-consciously with mud on their noses. I do much the same.

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The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.

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It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

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a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an oyster all their lives seem positively to relish causing trouble when they themselves shall be comfortably dead.

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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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