Agatha Christie Quotes, Literature Quotes

Very few of us are what we seem.

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Money ... is always the great clue to what is happening in the world.

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Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.

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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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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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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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Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

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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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... nothing is so boring as devotion.

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The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.

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

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I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

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

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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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And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!

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You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.

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Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

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It's very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.

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I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

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If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

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