Agatha Christie Quotes, Adventure Quotes, Dedication Quotes

To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]

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It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

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Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

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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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lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.

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It's a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything.

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Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.

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If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

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To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

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One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

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Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

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When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

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Heather Badcock meant no harm. She never did mean harm, but there is no doubt that people like Heather Badcock (and like my old friend Alison Wilde), are capable of doing a lot of harm because they lack - not kindness, they have kindness - but any real consideration for the way their actions may affect other people. She though always of what an action meant to her, never sparing a thought to what it might mean to somebody else.

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Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

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You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

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That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

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There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.

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

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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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the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

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