Agatha Christie Quotes, Children Quotes, Humble Quotes

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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Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.

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Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.

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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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If only-if only, Hastings, you would part your hair in the middle instead of at the side! What a difference it would make to the symmetry of your appearance. And your moustache. If you must have a moustache, let it be a real moustache-a thing of beauty such as mine.

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There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.

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People who can be very good can be very bad too.

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I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.

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Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

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fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

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No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot

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I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself.

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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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The past is the father of the present.

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

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But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

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You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

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

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It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.

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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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