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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

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Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

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There's nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation.

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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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People should be interested in books, not their authors.

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It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.

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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

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I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me.

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I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.

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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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Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that.

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One does what one can, not what one cannot.

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But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.

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It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.

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Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.

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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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If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

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To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.

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I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting... I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body in the face. It is the means that I am interested in. I do not usually describe the end, which is often a corpse.

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If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

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