Agatha Christie Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Eggs Quotes

Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this – ” he tapped his egg-shaped head – “this, that functions!

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Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

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To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

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

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Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

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Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.

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At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

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Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.

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You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.' That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.

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It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

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Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.

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It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

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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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Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.

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Who are you? You don't belong to the police?' 'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.

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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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There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

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Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

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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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Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.

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