Agatha Christie Quotes, Giving Quotes, Failing Quotes

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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One must make one's own mistakes

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Ideas are like everything else. They've got to be marketed.

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

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Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

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Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

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One does what one can, not what one cannot.

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Everything has got its right size. When it is its right size and well run it's the tops.

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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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The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

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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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I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.

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"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."

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You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.

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Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?

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When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!

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The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized.

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There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

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How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.

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She didn't give George any too easy a time when she was alive. She was one of those semi-invalids – I believe she had really something wrong with her, but whatever it was she played it for all it was worth. She was capricious, exacting, unreasonable. She complained from morning to night. George was expected to wait on her, hand and foot and everything he did was always wrong and he got cursed for it. Most men, I'm fully convinced, would have hit her with a hatchet long ago.

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