Agatha Christie Quotes, Secret Quotes, Wish Quotes

It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.

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I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.

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The past is the father of the present.

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When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.

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The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.

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I am all that there is of the most real.

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There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.

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Money ... is always the great clue to what is happening in the world.

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If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

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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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They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

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

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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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Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

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Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

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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 have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! . . . But-incongruous as it may seem to some-I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.

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Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.

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Everything has got its right size. When it is its right size and well run it's the tops.

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There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

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