Agatha Christie Quotes

No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.

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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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Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

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One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.

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People should be interested in books, not their authors.

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I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

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And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!

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Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.

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Wonderful things, horses. Never know what they will do, or won't do.

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Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

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As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

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You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.

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Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

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Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

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The tragedy of life is that people do not change.

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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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Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will befall them?' 'Good heavens, Poirot,' I cried, 'this is a matter of life and death. What does it matter what happens to our clothes?' 'You have no sense of proportion Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder.

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Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?

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

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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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