Agatha Christie Quotes, Evil Quotes

... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good.

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Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.

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Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

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It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.

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There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. - Hercule Poirot

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Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

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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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Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.

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To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

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But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

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What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.

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

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In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?

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

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You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.

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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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One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.

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There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.

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Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

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Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

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