Agatha Christie Quotes, Essence Quotes, Trying Quotes

I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn't it?

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

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Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.

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In the midst of life, we are in death.

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You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.

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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

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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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the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

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The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

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Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day's work....where crime is concerned, she's the goods.

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From an early age I knew very strongly the lust to kill.

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A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.

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One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

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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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She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

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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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Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

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One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.

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You'll be glad too, when the end comes.

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Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.

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