Agatha Christie Quotes, Loyalty Quotes, Believe Quotes

I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.

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I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life! That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike and some aren't. Some men are sentimental and muddle-headed, others are clear-headed and logical. There are just different types of brains.

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I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

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I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

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The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

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... 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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Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

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The steamship whose machinery is broken may be brought into port and made fast to the dock. She is safe, but not sound. Repairs may last a long time. Christ designs to make us both safe and sound. Justification gives the first - safety; sanctification gives us the second - soundness.

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There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.

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

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To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]

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Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

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Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.

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Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.

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I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right.

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To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.

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... obsessions are always dangerous.

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Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.

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Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

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