Agatha Christie Quotes, Retirement Quotes, Imagine Quotes

how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

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No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.

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He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.

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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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There speaks the passion and the rebellion that go with red hair. My second wife had red hair. She was a beautiful woman, and she loved me. Strange, is it not? I have always admired red-haired women. Your hair is very beautiful. There are other things I like about you. Your spirit, your courage; the fact that you have a mind of your own. ~Mr. Aristides

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

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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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The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One doesn't live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dead' don't want to die! People who apparently have everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they haven't got the energy to fight.

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The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.

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Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.

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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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These little grey cells. It is up to them.

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There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

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The past is the father of the present.

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It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.

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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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Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement

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There are many things that are unbelievable. Especially before breakfast, is it not? That is what one of your classics says. Six impossible things before breakfast.

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You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.

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In the midst of life, we are in death.

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